. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . y our])rejudices naturally. The English-man looks down upon the frog-eating Frenchman, and used tosay he could lick ten or a dozensuch. The Frenchman and English-man both scoff at the beer-drinkins:German and the stolid Dutchman,yet France has to remember Sedan,and England still smarts at thename of Van Tromp. The fact isthat no nation can afford to lookdown upon another, any more thanany civilization can afford to crowover another. Each has its own vir-tues, its own goods, its own advantages, France,England
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . y our])rejudices naturally. The English-man looks down upon the frog-eating Frenchman, and used tosay he could lick ten or a dozensuch. The Frenchman and English-man both scoff at the beer-drinkins:German and the stolid Dutchman,yet France has to remember Sedan,and England still smarts at thename of Van Tromp. The fact isthat no nation can afford to lookdown upon another, any more thanany civilization can afford to crowover another. Each has its own vir-tues, its own goods, its own advantages, France,England, Germany, America, have never equaled,much less surpassed, the architecture of Greece, Egypt,and Rome. The United States, with all its brag andboast, has never had a poet equal to old blind Homeror the Italian Dante. Germanys Goethe is worthyto stand side by side with Englands Shakspere, andthe architecture of the rude and vulgar Goths is thesupremest crown of all building in the proud andconceited English-speaking Mother Country. And so have I learned to look at the Indian. He 26. INDIAN BEADWOKK. THE WHITE RACE AND THE INDIAN has many things that we can take to our advantage andprofit, and some of these have been presented in thefollowing pages. In the next chapter I have a fewnecessary reservations and observations to make whichI trust the patience of the reader will permit himcarefully to consider. 27 CHAPTER II THE WHITE RACE AND ITS CIVUvIZATION T AM by no means a blind worshiper of our so-calledhigher and advanced civilization. I do notthink we have advanced yet as far as the Greeks in somethings. Our civilization, in many respects, is sham,shoddy, gingerbread, tinsel, false, showy, meretricious,deceptive. If I were making this bookan arraignment of our civilization therewould ])e no lack of counts in the in-dictment, and a plethora of evidencecould be found to justify each a nation, we do not knoAV how toeat rationally; few people sleep asthey should; our dri
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