Sketches of Indian Character / Being a Brief Survey of the Principal Features of Character Exhibited by the North American Indians; Illustrating the Aphorism of the Socialists, that "Man is the creature of circumstances"

by James Napier Bailey

SKETCHES OF
INDIAN CHARACTER:
BEING A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE
PRINCIPAL FEATURES OF CHARACTER
EXHIBITED BY
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS;
ILLUSTRATING THE APHORISM OF THE SOCIALISTS, THAT
“MAN IS THE CREATURE OF CIRCUMSTANCES.”

COMPILED BY JAMES NAPIER BAILEY.

“In order to complete the history of the human mind, and attain to a perfect knowledge of its nature and operations, we must contemplate man in all those various situations in which he has been placed. We must follow him in his progress through the different stages of society, as he gradually advances from the infant state of civil life towards its maturity and decline. We must observe at each period, how the faculties of his understanding unfold; we must attend to the efforts of his active powers, watch the various movements of desire and affection as they rise in his breast, and mark whither they tend, and with what ardour they are exerted.”

Robertson.

Leeds:

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1841.

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