Note 214-2 — Chapter I

Compare R. S. Zachariä, Vierzig Bücher vom Staate, VII, 37. Men in the lower stages of civilization cherish a greater contempt for those more advanced than they are themselves visited with by the latter. Thus it was customary for the Siberian hunting races to utter a malediction: May your enemy live like a Tartar, and have the folly to engage in the breeding of cattle. (Abulghazi Bahadur, Histoire généalogique des Tartares.) Nomadic races look upon the inhabitants of cities as for the most part prisoners.