Why you don't object to that disgustingly barbaric rite I can't think.

I can only say that I began it when I began to be a Zulu, about the age of ten.

What I maintained was that although you knew more about Zulus in the sense that you are a scientist, I know more about them in the sense that I am a savage.

For instance, your theory of the origin of language, something about its having come from the formulated secret language of some individual creature, though you knocked me silly with facts and scholarship in its favour, still does not convince me, because I have a feeling that that is not the way that things happen.

If you ask me why I think so I can only answer that I am a Zulu; and if you ask me (as you most certainly will) what is my definition of a Zulu, I can answer that also.