The Tahitian was still naïf, hospitable, gentle, indolent except as to needs, valuing friendship above all things, accepting the evangelism of many warring Christian sects as a tumult among jealous gods and priests, and counting sex manifestations free expressions of affection, and of an appetite not more sacred nor more shameful than hunger or thirst.

What is more shameful than inconsistency, fickleness, and levity, both to individuals, and also to the entire senate?

There is nothing more detestable than disgrace; nothing more shameful than slavery.

Of all the profligate conduct of all the world, I never saw, I never heard of any more shameful than yours.