Their own faiths, though lower in form, had in them the germs of a religious and moral evolution, more likely, with proper regulation, to lead these people to a higher plane of thought than the Aryan doctrines which were forced upon them.
This may seem a daring, even a heterodox assertion, but I think that most modern ethnologists will agree that it is no more possible for races in all stages of culture and of widely different faculties to receive with benefit any one religion, than it is for them to thrive under one form of government, or to adopt with advantage one uniform plan of building houses.

The moral and religious life is a growth, and the brash wood of ancient date cannot be grafted on the green stem.

It is well to remember that the heathendoms of America were very far from wanting living seeds of sound morality and healthy mental education.

I shall endeavor to point this out in a few brief paragraphs.
In their origin in the human mind, religion and morality have nothing in common.

They are even antagonistic.