. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . finethings on the subject he once wrote the following whichfully expresses my idea: To wash in one of Gods rivers in the open air seems to me a sort ofcheerful solemnity or semi-pagan act of worship. To dabble amongdishes in a bedroom may perhaps make clean the body; but the imagi-nation takes no share in such a cleansing. One of our great artists and writers, whose life wentout a few years ago in sad eclipse, wrote with a clarityof vision that his awful experiences had taught him: I have a strange longing f
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . finethings on the subject he once wrote the following whichfully expresses my idea: To wash in one of Gods rivers in the open air seems to me a sort ofcheerful solemnity or semi-pagan act of worship. To dabble amongdishes in a bedroom may perhaps make clean the body; but the imagi-nation takes no share in such a cleansing. One of our great artists and writers, whose life wentout a few years ago in sad eclipse, wrote with a clarityof vision that his awful experiences had taught him: I have a strange longing for the great simple primevalthings, such as the sea, to me no less of a mother thanthe earth. It seems to me that we all look at Nature 55 THE INDIAN AND OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE too luucli, and live with her too httlc. 1 discern greatsanity in the Greek attitude. They never chatteredabout sunsets, or discussed whether the shadows on thegrass were really mauve or not. But they saw that thesea was for the swimmer, and the land for the feet ofthe runner. Tliev loved the trees for the shadow. AN APACHE GRANDMOTHER AND SOME BASKETS OF HER OWN DESIGNAND WEAVE. ALL MADE IN THE OPEN AIR. that they cast, and the forest for its silence at vineyard-dresser wreathed his liair with ivy, thathe might keep off the rays of the sun as he stoopedover the young shoots; and for the artist and theathlete, the tw o types that Greece gave us, they plaitedw ith garlands the leaves of the bitter laurel and of thewild parsley, which else had been of no service to men. 56 THE INDIAN AND OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE , . , . I feel sure that in elemental forces there ispurification, and I want to go back to them and live intheir presence. How literally true to fact is this assurance of puri-fication out in the great elemental forces and places ofNature, and how the Indian daily demonstrates can testify to it. Here one becomes grinning faces of hate do not pursue him is passionles
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