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Nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. Again and again he returns to the Indian: We talk Of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his im provement. By the wary independence and aloofness of his dim forest life he preserves his intercourse with his native gods, and is admitted from time to time to a rare and peculiar society with Nature. He has glances of starry recognition, to which our saloons are strangers. The steady illumination of his genius, dim only because distant, is like the faint but satisfying light of the stars compared with the dazzling but ineffectual and short-lived blaze of candles. We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild, and chase the buffalo. The only relics that interest him are Indian relics. One of his regular Spring recreations or occupations is the hunting of.
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