In that work, he opined that it was "more barbaric to eat a man alive than to eat him dead" when unfavorably comparing Europeans to Brazilian cannibals.
This thinker was fond of citing ancient writers, such as when he noted that Saint Augustine may have known a man who could fart on cue. One work by this author uses the example of Pyrrhus seeing an army that has "nothing of barbarism in it" when fighting against the Romans. In that work, he opined that it was "more barbaric to eat a man alive than to eat him dead" when unfavorably comparing Europeans to Brazilian cannibals. In another work, this thinker skeptically asked, "What do I know?" A collection by this thinker invented a genre named for the French word for "attempt." For 10 points, name this 16th century French author of a series of Essays.
This thinker was fond of citing ancient writers, such as when he noted that Saint Augustine may have known a man who could fart on cue.
Michel de Montaigne