This two-word term was first used in John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada. The concept it signifies was employed by Rousseau and is a convention common to Voltaire's Ingenu, 
This two-word term was first used in John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada. The concept it signifies was employed by Rousseau and is a convention common to Voltaire's Ingenu, Chateaubriand's novels Rene, Atala and Les Natchez. FTP, name this concept in which indigenous New World and Eastern peoples, free from European authoritarian governments, conflicting dogmas, and persecution, were made to seem uncorrupted and pure.
This two-word term was first used in John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada.
Noble Savage