“It's not the barbarian who threatens us, it's civilization that frightens us.”
Brazilian sociologist and journalist Euclides da Cunha died #OTD in 1909.
His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos.