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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"Bailey, James Napier

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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"

Name: 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"
Author: Bailey, James Napier

Bailey, James Napier

Indians of North America

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                               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:
         PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JOSHUA HOBSON, MARKET STREET,
       BRIGGATE; SOLD BY ABEL HEYWOOD, OLDHAM STREET, MANCHESTER;
     PATON AND LOVE, NELSON STREET, GLASGOW; JOHN CLEAVE, SHOE LANE,
               FLEET STREET, LONDON; AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

                                  1841.




SKETCHES OF INDIAN CHARACTER.


The history of nations fully establishes the fact, that the character
of man results from the operation of circumstances on his organism.
This great and important truth is written in such broad and legible
characters on the face of human annals, as may easily be distinguished
and can scarcely be mistaken. Among rude and savage tribes we discern
features of character, which are distinctly referable to the influence of
causes peculiar to the savage state; and among the members of civilized
communities, we behold the manifestation of virtues, vices, and talents,
which are also traceable to the operation of circumstances differing
from those which determine the character of barbarous nations. There is
a marked dissimilarity between the barbarian of Labrador and the native
of London or Paris; yet this difference is more the child of accident
than of nature, and would probably disappear in course of time were the
parties to be subjected to the influence of similar institutions.

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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"

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