CHAPTER I.
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE RED RACE.
PAGE Natural religions the unaided attempts of man to find out God, modified by peculiarities of race and nation .-- The peculiarities of the red race: 1.

Its languages unfriendly to abstract ideas.

Native modes of writing by means of pictures, symbols, objects, and phonetic signs.

These various methods compared in their influence on the intellectual faculties.2.Its isolation, unique in the history of the world.3.Beyond all others, a hunting race .-- Principal linguistic subdivisions: 1.

The Eskimos.2.The Athapascas.3.