“Voltaire, Locke, Rousseau, and Hobbes never had a chance to speak with these men or even know of their existence – and here, at last, we begin to appreciate the enormity of the calamity, for the distintegration of native America was a loss not just to those societies but to the human enterprise as a whole.”

“Voltaire, Locke, Rousseau, and Hobbes never had a chance to speak with these men or even know of their existence – and here, at last, we begin to appreciate the enormity of the calamity, for the distintegration of native America was a loss not just to those societies but to the human enterprise as a whole.”

— Charles C. Mann