Things said by or about Tarzan (John Clayton)

Bill Bryson: "Tarzan himself could have been the poster boy for the eugenics movement. Tarzan, as many readers will surely know already, is the story of an aristocratic English infant who is left orphaned in the African jungle and is brought up by apes. Fortunately, because he is white and Anglo-Saxon, he is innately brave, strong, decisive and kind, instinctively ethical, and clever enough to solve any problem. He even teaches himself to read — quite a feat considering that he speaks no human language and doesn't know what a book is when he first sees one. Thank goodness for racial superiority." One Summer: America 1927.