Indeed, when one has seen these Indians—has noted their self-restraint, their dignity, and gracefulness of looks and bearing, their gentleness and consideration one for the other, the utter lack of servility among them; more than all, when one has noted the brightness of their minds, the ease, for instance, with which they learn a foreign language and grasp ideas entirely new and foreign to their environment and habits of thought—one all but loses patience with the pride of race and egotism of religion that have named them savages.
A visitor to the meeting place of the Société d'Ethnographie of Paris, sees upon the wall above the President's chair this motto:
Corpore diversi, sed mentis lumine fratres.
The truth of that motto is never more apparent than in a contemplation of the Indians of Patagonia.
