Works
Crawfurd wrote prolificly. His views have been seen as inconsistent: a recent author wrote that " Crawfurd seemed to embody a complex mixture of elements of coexisting but ultimately contradictory value systems". A comment about "hasty general opinions from a few instances", by George Bennett on the topic of Papuan people, has been taken to be aimed at Crawfurd.
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