 | Edgar Rice Burroughs - 1914 - 428 páginas
...stayed his hand. Had not his books taught him that he was a man?f And was not The Archer a man, also ? Did men eat men? Alas, he did not know. Why, then,...worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant. Quickly he lowered Kulonga's body to the ground, removed the noose, and took to the trees again. CHAPTER... | |
 | Edgar Rice Burroughs - 1990 - 330 páginas
...stayed his hand. Had not his books taught him that he was a man? And was not The Archer a man, also? Did men eat men? Alas, he did not know. Why, then,...worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant. Quickly he lowered Kulonga's body to the ground, removed the noose, and took to the trees again. The... | |
 | Marianna Torgovnick - 1990 - 350 páginas
...not his books taught him that he was a man? And was not The Archer a man, also? Did men eat men? ... All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man." "And thus," Burroughs insists, "hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved... | |
 | Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen - 1998 - 330 páginas
...wells up inside him and a 'qualm of nausea' prevents him from tasting Kulonga's flesh: '[HJereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught...saved him from transgressing a world-wide law of whose existence he was ignorant' (79-80). Just what Burroughs means by 'hereditary instinct' remains temporarily... | |
 | Michael J. Shapiro - 2002 - 180 páginas
...(which Burroughs seems to treat as universal) manifest themselves in the form of a counterinstinct. All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and this hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved him from transgressing... | |
 | Priscilla L. Walton - 2004 - 206 páginas
...stayed his hand. Had not his books taught him that he was a man? And was not The Archer a man, also? Did men eat men? Alas, he did not know. Why, then,...worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant. (93-94) After this close call, the narrative follows Tarzan's adventures and ultimately posits him... | |
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Once more he essayed the effort, but of a sudden a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him. He did not understand. All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught... 