 The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury. To him, as to other single-minded men in every...  American Social and Religious Conditions - Page 136by Charles Stelzle - 1912 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 738 pages
...religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury. To him, as to other single minded men in every age and race, from Diogenes to the brothers...skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. * We may, in a scientific analysis, hold that this generous sharing of property was merely a necessity... | |
 | Frank Bennett Fiske - Dakota Indians - 1917 - 198 pages
...standing upon the brink of eternity, might reveal to a chosen few the oracle of his long-past youth. "The native American has been generally despised by...divine decree — a matter profoundly important to him. * * * "The red man divided mind into two parts — the spiritual mind and the physical mind. The first... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh - 1920 - 152 pages
...religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury. To him as to other single minded men in every age and race, from Diogenes to the brothers...society a source of needless peril and temptation. It is my personal belief after thirty-five years experience of it, that there is no such thing as Christian... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - American literature - 1921 - 448 pages
...religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury. To him as to other single minded men in every age and race, from Diogenes to the brothers...society a source of needless peril and temptation. It is my personal belief after thirty-five years experience of it, that there is no such thing as Christian... | |
 | Kent Nerburn - Social Science - 2010 - 240 pages
...luxury. To us, as to other spiritually-minded people in every age and race, the love of possessions is a snare, and the burdens of a complex society a source of needless peril and temptation. It is simple truth that we Indians did not, so long as our native philosophy held sway over our minds,... | |
 | Kent Nerburn - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 96 pages
...luxury. To us, as to other spiritually minded people in every age and race, the love of possessions is a snare, and the burdens of a complex society a source of needless peril and temptation. It is simple truth that we Indians did not, so long as our native philosophy held sway over our minds,... | |
 | Charles Alexander Eastman - Social Science - 2003 - 68 pages
...native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. The) forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation...cupidity, or envy, and carried out. as he believed, the dmne decree — a matter profoundly important to him. It was not. then, wholly from ignorance or improvidence... | |
 | Joel Pfister - History - 2004 - 364 pages
..."forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury. . . . The love of possessions . . . appeared a snare, and the burdens of a complex society, a source of needless peril and temptation." "Indians" had established no cities because they considered a great "concentration of population" inhumane.24... | |
 | Charles F. Wilkinson - History - 2005 - 572 pages
...included the humility of silence and a duty to nature, so too it encompassed the morality of simplicity: The native American has been generally despised by...divine decree — a matter profoundly important to him. The Soul of the Indian. He wanted to go back and live the essence of the life he revered but knew he... | |
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