| Title: | Savages |
| Original Title: | Sauvages |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 14 (1765), p. 729 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Richard Weyhing [University of Chicago] |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Savages." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Richard Weyhing. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2008. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.985>. Trans. of "Sauvages," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 14. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Savages." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Richard Weyhing. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.985 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Sauvages," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 14:729 (Paris, 1765). |
Savages. Barbarous peoples who live without law, without governance [ police ], without religion, and who have no fixed habitation.
This word comes from the Italian salvagio , derived from salvaticus, selvaticus and silvaticus , which signifies the same thing as sylvestris —rustic, or that which concerns woods and forests, because savages ordinarily dwell in forests.
A large part of America is peopled by savages , the majority of whom are still fierce and feed upon human flesh. See Cannibals.
Father Charlevoix discussed the mores and customs of the savages of Canada at length in his journal d’un voyage d’Amérique , which we have made use of in several articles of this dictionary.