Edgar Rice Burroughs person
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“And if you want the official version of Lincoln, the one that's not true, you go read Burlingame. He'll tell you he grew up in a log cabin and was honest to Abe and saved the Union, none of which is technically true. So I had to put him on …”
▶ The Shadow State 37 Secret Societies 21; Andover Connections @ 25:31
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▶ 25:31
And if you want the official version of Lincoln, the one that's not true, you go read Burlingame. He'll tell you he grew up in a log cabin and was honest to Abe and saved the Union, none of which is technically true. So I had to put him on …
▶ 26:03
You know, Edgar Rice Burroughs actually deserves another comment because one of the things that he wrote about was the noble savage. And that concept came in with the Fabians in the 20th century. So when you get all these, I don't want to c…
▶ 8:49
His central claim is that humans are born good, but they're corrupted by society. This is where we get the concept of the noble savage. Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote around the turn of the 20th century, wrote the Tarzan books, John Someth…