Heart of Darkness: Part II

Marlow sees the Africans as savages, but yet he says that he also sees that they are human. "The mind of man is capable of anything..." (p. 32). This means that although Marlow and the rest of the crew are civilized, the Africans on shore are still humans and capable of becoming more civilized in their ways. He also makes a comment about how they (the natives) wouldn't know much about time; "I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time--had no inherited experience to teach them as it were." This shows that although the natives aren't civilized, they didn't have a choice in learning those things because they haven't had the experiences that would cause such civilities.

He doesn't think that skin color should make a difference, but many times when he sees a black man, even the one on the ship that would help him, he would call the "n" name.

I think that Marlow's character is trying to say colonization isn't a bad thing. He talks about the natives being "not inhuman" and so it is kind of like saying they have potential to become more civilized, which chalks up to being more human-like.

Kurtz is a man that many men know. He sells/trades ivory and is known anywhere where they need ivory--which would probably mean that he is known in many places (all of Europe).