During the late 16th and 17th centuries the figure of the indigene or `` savage '' , and later , increasingly , the `` good savage '' , was held up as a reproach to European civilization , then in the throes of the French Wars of Religion and Thirty Years War .
During the seventeenth century , as an aspect of Romantic `` Primitivism '' , the figure of the `` Good Savage '' was held up as a reproach to European civilization , then in the throes of savage wars of religion .