wrote Paul Theroux*.
But he contradicts himself throughout -
and here quotes Herman Melville:
Not until I visited Honolulu
was I aware of the fact that the small remnant of the natives
had been civilized into draught-horses,
and evangelized into beasts of burden.
But so it is. They have been literally broken into the traces,
and are harnessed to the vehicle of their spiritual instructors
like so many dumb brutes.
What a wonderful and telling use of the term Spiritual Instructor.
* in The Tao of Travel, p.70
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