Viewed unprejudicedly, their civilization is not so advanced a one as our own.

Although they are certainly our superiors in some very desirable particulars, their whole scheme is distinctly more aboriginal fundamentally.

It is more finished, as far as it goes, but it does not go so far.

Less rude, it is more rudimentary.

Indeed, as we have seen, its surface-perfection really shows that nature has given less thought to its substance.