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A new-found land is an invention, like the steamship and the jet aircraft. Its discovery opens a new awareness and a range of possibilities. The fascination with primitive societies and with nature in the late eighteenth century relied on new-found lands — Tahiti, Mauritius, the east coast of Australia, the interior of North America. Without these new lands, the Noble Savage might not have been enthroned so easily.
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Notes
Insects making a new coral continent: Archibald Alison, The Principles of Population (Edinburgh, 1840 ), vol. 2, p. 497.
Stephen FitzGerald, China and the World, Canberra, 1977, p 5. FitzGerald was Australia’s first ambassador to communist China, 1973–6.
French tourists to China: Albert Bressand and T. de Montbrial, ‘The Ups and Downs of Mutual Relevance’, Daedalus (Spring 1979) p. 113.
French Maoist newspaper: Jean-Pierre le Dantec, cited Daedalus (Spring 1979) p. 113.
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Blainey, G. (1988). The Magic of New-Found Lands. In: The Great Seesaw. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10086-6_16
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