Hottentots
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the Hottentots
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
A southern African people invoked rhetorically as a byword for supposed savagery, ironically contrasted with the barbarity of European legal proceedings.
Was it among the Topinambous, or among the Hottentots, that these things happened?
Law in a Free State
Group used as a test case for readiness for absolute liberty.
We can force them to co-operate with us by admitting their contention for the sake of argument, and then asking whether the Russians are ready for absolute freedom, and if so, whether the Hindoos are ready, or the Chinese, or the Arabs, or the Hottentots, or the tree-dwarfs?