RKS Literature: Kurtz’s Background and the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs (Joseph Conrad)

The original Kurtz had been educated partly in England, and-as he was good enough to say himself-his sympathies were in the right place. His mother was half-English, his father was half-French. All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; and by and bye I learned that, most appropriately, the International Society for the Suppression of…