 | Michael D. Green - 1982 - 258 Seiten
...mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable," President Monroe informed Congress, "and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from...others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort."4 Excited by the prospect of training Native people in plow agriculture, an achievement which,... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - 1985 - 148 Seiten
...compatible with the progress and just claims of civilized life, and must yield to it." He told Congress that "the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...than is necessary for their own support and comfort." Monroe to Andrew Jackson, October 5, 1817, Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, ed. John Spencer Bassett,... | |
 | Warren A. Beck - 1989 - 204 Seiten
...President James Monroe stated in 1817: "The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest numbers of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have...necessary for their own support and comfort. " It was for the common good that the way of life of the first Americans had to be destroyed. As one observer... | |
 | Donald Worster - 1992 - 305 Seiten
...latter principle was well expressed by President Monroe in his first annual message to Congress in 1817: "The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort."12 According to this view, the aboriginal peoples of the New World had no right to hold land... | |
 | John Robert Shepherd - 1993 - 638 Seiten
...than is compatible with the progress and just claims of civilized life, and must yield to it ... for the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort."14 Others argued that removal would safeguard the Indians from destructive influences such... | |
 | Willard W. Cochrane - 1979 - 524 Seiten
...civilized population and ought to yield, for the earth is given to mankind to support the greatest number which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a...others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort."5 Second, white Americans believed that the natural resources of the North American continent... | |
 | David A. Rausch, Blair Schlepp - 1994 - 196 Seiten
...annual message to Congress in 1817 that "the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest numbers of which it is capable, and no tribe, or people have...than is necessary for their own support and comfort." Two years later Congress set up a token "Civilization Fund" to educate the Native American in the ways... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 1996 - 364 Seiten
...right" give way "to the more dense and compact form and greater force of civilized population," since "the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...than is necessary for their own support and comfort." Accordingly, "the rights of nature demand and nothing can prevent" the "rapid and gigantic" expansion... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 Seiten
...in 1817, expressed the policy or ethical principle that was accepted by most Americans at the time: "The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort."17 The only hard alternatives for the Native Americans were conflict and separation, or acceptance,... | |
 | David Sievert Lavender, David Lavender - 1998 - 532 Seiten
...desert. It yields to the . . . greater force of civilized population and ought to yield, for the earth is given to mankind to support the greatest number of...than is necessary for their own support and comfort." Convinced of Michigan's future greatness as a center of white civilization, Cass did everything in... | |
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The hunter state can exist only in the vast uncultivated desert. It yields to the more dense and compact form and greater force of civilized population ; and of right it ought to yield, for the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number... 
