In 1774, Hastings wrote to the Lord Chief Justice denying the idea that India was ruled by nothing more than " arbitrary wills, or uninstructed judgments, or their temporary rulers ".
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Goffman argued that women are socialized to present themselves as " precious, ornamental and fragile, uninstructed in and ill-suited for anything requiring muscular exertion " and to project " shyness, reserve and a display of frailty, fear and incompetence ."
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But this sensation, if ever it be felt at all from the brute instinct of uninstructed nature, will only produce effects desultory and transient; it will never settle into a principle of action, or extend relief to calamities unseen, in generations not yet in being ."
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The brother and sister escape when he unwittingly answers the riddles correctly, and they fly into the heavens, there to become the sun and moon in eclipse . . . . What I saw in the legend was the possibility of composing a contemporary realistic novel in which all the structural desiderata were fulfilled without the uninstructed reader's needing to know or care ."
