Dryden had a dream of an early age, 'when wild in woods the noble savage ran;' but 'when lone in woods the cringing savage crept' would have been more like all we know of that early, bare, painful period.
Bagehot critiques the romanticized view of primitive societies by contrasting it with a more realistic perspective.
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