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In the essay Of Cannibals, Michel de Montaigne explains how being a Barbarian is not a bad thing. He tries to make people see that these people are in some ways have a better and more civilized way of living than what people considered to be the civilized colonies. Montaigne explains that the when the Barbarians go to war it is never to increase the amount of land for themselves, when he says "They are not fighting for the conquest of new lands, for they still enjoy that natural abundance that provides thwm without toil and trouble with all necessary things in such profusion that they have no with to enlarge their boundaries." Montaigne also explain that the reason they eat humans is not for nutrition but "All this is done for the sole purpose of extorting from their lips some weak or base word... so as to gain the advantage of having terrified them and broken down their firmness." This means that the only reason they eat their enemies is to put fear into their them and to make them afraid of the Barbarians. Montaigne also says that in some ways the Barbarians are more civilized than the colonies that are thought to be civilized. "I think there is more barbarity in eating a man alive than in eating him dead; and in tearing by tortures and the rack a body still full of feeling, in roasting a man bit by bit, in having him bitten and mangled by dogs and swine, than in roasting and eating him after he is dead." Meaning the Barbarians eat humans in a more civilized way when they could be more brutal, and that people in more civilized colonies torture people when they are alive. Montaigne is trying to get the point across that people should consider people to be Barbarians just since they do things that seem strange to someone from a different region in the world.