Or was this only one other instance of the barbaric brutishness of those who so insistently sought his life?

Like the lower animals, we were stricken now with dumbness, and hardly once in a week spoke a word one to the other, but in selfish brutishness on through a real hell of cold we moved.

I can conceive no deeper fall into utter brutishness than that; and yet some few of the most savage tribes, both in Africa and in the Indian islands, are saidGod help them!to live in that way, and to have no names;blotted, indeed, out of the book of life!