Tilge was a popular writer who wrote about the 'primitive past' of her people. Her critique is put into the mouth of an inca princess called zelia and ee. Ee argues that indigenous peples have all these freedoms, but are inferior in material terms. The idea they could tell us anything about european nations suddenly becomes irrelevant at best.
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