Part 1- Choose the quotations below; discuss how it relates to the author’s overall position—how it is characteristic of their work—and make some specific connections to at least two other people we have read thus far. Please be very specific in all your commentary.

Kant “A greater degree of civil freedom appears advantageous to the freedom of mind of the people, and yet it places inescapable limitations upon it. A lower degree of civil freedom, on the contrary, provides the mind with room for each man to extend himself to his full capacity. As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares – the propensity and vocation to free thinking ….”

Part 2- Choose the quotations below; discuss how it relates to the author’s overall position—how it is characteristic of their work—and make some specific connections to at least two other people we have read thus far. Please be very specific in all your commentary.

Melville: “The term “Savage” is, I conceive, often misapplied, and indeed when I consider the vices, cruelties, and enormities of every kind that spring up in the tainted atmosphere of a feverish civilization, I am inclined to think that so far as the relative wickedness of the parties is concerned, four or five Marquesan Islanders sent to the United States as Missionaries might be quite as useful as an equal number of Americans dispatched to the islands in a similar capacity.”