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were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you—you so remote from the night of first ages—could comprehend. And why not?

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As there is no question included with the text, we can only look at what this quote means.

This quote comes from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. In this passage, we learn about the way in which Marlow thinks about the local people. He tells us that they were not inhuman, even though their behaviour was very primitive. He recognizes that, although civilization has transformed Westerners, he is still forced to recognize that there must a part within him that is of the same nature as that of the natives. In this text, Marlow is able to question some of the fundamental ideas of imperialism, without abandoning the ideal completely.

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