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Show I stl&ntial elevation. This divergence of opinion, hen-ever, is not a late developme~it,n,o r do the lines of divergence run wholly bet,weeu E;~st,ern and Western men. It is a notable fact that two prominent New Engla,l~dh istorians i were conspienous represe~itativeso f these diverse ideas. Dr. Palfrey, ill his history of Nen* England, regarded the habits and manners of ! the red melt with intense disgust., as wretched, filthy, treacherous, and fiendish. He n'o111d not invest them vith romalice, and ridiculed the idea of anything noble and roya,l in even the lnost stately savage mien. 1 But Goveruor Arnold, in his history of Rhode Island, dwelt ~ i t dhel ight upon the romance of the aboriginal, his wilderness chivall.y, and his lofty freedom, amid the pure air of forest, lake, and stream. On the one hand we have portra.yals of squalor, sl~iftlessness,i mprovidence, incapacity, and savagery; a~i don the other dignity, noble manhood, and / constancy. Arnold says that, though igr~oranot f Itevelation, the abo-rigines in the American wilderness, through tradition, solved Plato's 1 great. problem of i~~imortalitbyu; t Palt'rey n7rote: The New England snTage mas not the person to have diseoveretl what the vast reaoh of thought of Plsto and Cieero eonld not attain. Nevertheless, as a matter of fact, says Ellis: I . Eilanv of our Puritnn ancestors onme to reeard and treat the saranc as 3 lriud of rermig of the woo,ls, combining all the offe;dire and hideons qualitha and anhtil-ties of snakes, molres, bears, wildonts, skunks, and penthers, with bloodtllirstiness and ferooity exoeedinw them all. This was the estimate of the noble Indian by those who had h w d hOi8 yell and felt hm tomahawk in aotnsl conflict. Time, with great advance in lituuane sentinlent, has softeued the asperities of Eastern sentime~lt;a nd a sinrilar modification is rapidly going on .all through the West. May we not hope t,hat ~ i t h i na few years both sections, with equal cordiality, will be represented in efforts to lift and redeem those lo~ig provoked to hostility, robbed, and debauched. SKEYTICISM. The Indian school policy ellcounters ~nuchra dical skepticism. Some people, and the uu~uberis not small, scout the idea of educating and civilizing the Indian. Gen. Cortis' long and illtimate acquaintance with Indialis is tnought by some to authorize 11i1n to settle this ques-tion ex enthedrir. He does, iudeed, spcak emphatically. He says (Life on the Plains) : The Indim can not be l~imself and be civilized; he fades anray and diea. Culti-ration, such a& the white man would zive him, deprives him of his identity. Edn-cation, strange as it luny appear, soem8 to meskea mther than strengthen his intel-lect. * * :' Civilization may and should <lo nuoh for him, hot it can never oivilizo him. A few instances to the oontrary may be quoted, but these are suscepti-ble of exvlannt~on. I Again he says: We see him es he is, and, so ftar %as all knowledge goes, as he ever hila been-a savage in ereq some of the rrurd, not morse, perhaps, than his ivhite brother mould be s imi l~r l rb oru and bred. but one mhoss ferocions natme far exceeds any I wild beast of the desert I Another military gentlenlau, JIai. J. S. Campion (Life in the Froiltier, p. 335), says: 1 'I'ht: wr~ll'sr~1l4l. ~ n c Ill t n!!vnrs will Inr, 4 hsvagr; 30 1 ~be~e"s, a u:tl\~.~yss 1 11 bu, 11." Apm'lw. 'T1.c ] ~ l ~ i ~ l . ~ ~ t I8lv.t.rau 1~>~uia~prp ;3rmII'C :~.~OLI~ 1 , ~w. il l, ] . rq~e lv nlI8lre, the .\uacbr al!ul>l.l no1 Le:0>8cr. 3 utrt'ul ~uelojb~u:rf Rurtrty. I j ~ enu afrai#rl,ativ uwon vly the wolf should not become as domestic as the dog; bnt ha wo&. Ths re is mental difference. |