The Noble Savage Was Always a Fairy Tale. - Michael Smith

This myth/fable is, in literature and philosophy, an idealized concept of uncivilized man, a natural being who symbolizes the innate goodness of one isolated from the corrupting influences of civilization.  - Michael Smith

• It presupposes that before technology and development, men and women were living in an innocent and harmonious state with nature and each other. 
• It was a belief that the indigenous people, unsullied by the advancement of civilization, existed in a pure, natural state of symbiotic perfection...