| 15 | Author: | Gale, Zona | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Friday  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HEMPEL had watched the hands of the clock make all the motions of
the hour, from the trim segment of eleven to the lazy down-stretch of
twenty minutes past, the slim erectness of the half-hour, the
promising angles of the three quarters, ten, five to twelve, and last
the unanimity and consummation of noon. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 25 | Author: | Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | In the Face of His Constituents. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SENATOR HARRISON concluded his argument and sat down. There was no
applause, but he had expected none. Senator Dorman was already
saying “Mr. President?” and there was a stir in the crowded
galleries, and an anticipatory moving of chairs among the Senators.
In the press gallery the reporters bunched together their scattered
papers and inspected their pencil-points with earnestness. Dorman
was the last speaker of the Senate, and he was on the popular side
of it. It would be the great speech of the session, and the
prospect was cheering after a deluge of railroad and insurance
bills. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 27 | Author: | Glasgow, Ellen | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Shadowy Third | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I saw her lift her little arms, and I saw the mother stoop and
gather her to her bosom.
A drawing by
Elenore Plaisted Abbott. Standing by an open window, a woman wearing
a long grey shawl leans down toward a small girl whom she embraces
with her arms. The little girl has her arms wrapped around her
mother's waist, and leans back to look up into her mother's face.
There is a pot of daffodils on the windowsill.
Ornamental letter "W" which begins the text. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 29 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Creatures That Once Were Men | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN front of you is the main street, with two rows of miserable
looking huts with shuttered windows and old walls pressing on each other
and leaning forward. The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full
of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; from underneath
them project mildewed beams, which are shaded by the dusty-leaved
elder-trees and crooked white willows—pitiable flora of those suburbs
inhabited by the poor. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 33 | Author: | Gordon, Irwin L. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date:
Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be. | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ADAM[1] (last name unknown), ancestor, explorer,
gardener, and inaugurator of history. Biographers
differ as to his parentage. Born first
Saturday of year 1. Little is known of his childhood.
Education: Self-educated. Entered the
gardening and orchard business when a young
man. Was a strong anti-polygamist. Married
Eve, a close relative. Children, Cain and Abel
(see them). Was prosperous for some years, but
eventually fell prey to his wife's fruitful ambitions.
Lost favor of the proprietor of the garden, and
failed in business. A. started a number of things
which have not been perfected. Diet: Fond of
apples. Recreation: Chess, agriculture. Address:
Eden, General Delivery. Clubs: Member of all
exclusive clubs. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 34 | Author: | Gould, George M., and Walter L. Pyle | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Menstruation has always been of interest, not only to the
student of
medicine, but to the lay-observer as well. In olden times there were many
opinions concerning its causation, all of which, until the era of physiologic
investigation, were of superstitious derivation. Believing menstruation to
be the natural means of exit of the feminine bodily impurities, the ancients
always thought a menstruating woman was to be shunned; her very presence
was deleterious to the whole animal economy, as, for instance, among the
older writers we find that Pliny [1.1]
remarks: "On the approach of a woman
in this state, must will become sour, seeds which are touched by her become
sterile, grass withers away, garden plants are parched up, and the fruit
will fall from the tree beneath which she sits.'' He also says that the
menstruating women in Cappadocia were perambulated about the fields to
preserve the vegetation from worms and caterpillars. According to
Flemming, [1.2] menstrual
blood was believed to be so powerful that the mere
touch
of a menstruating woman would render vines and all kinds of fruit-trees
sterile. Among the indigenous Australians, menstrual superstition was so
intense that one of the native blacks, who discovered his wife lying on his
blanket during her menstrual period, killed her, and died of terror himself
in a fortnight. Hence, Australian women during this season are forbidden
to touch anything that men use. [1.3]
Aristotle said that the very look of a
menstruating woman would take the polish out of a mirror, and the next person
looking in it would be bewitched. Frommann
[1.4] mentions a man who said
he saw a tree in Goa which withered because a catamenial napkin was hung
on it. Bourke remarks that the dread felt by the American Indians in this
respect corresponds with the particulars recited by Pliny. Squaws at the
time of menstrual purgation are obliged to seclude themselves, and in most
instances to occupy isolated lodges, and in all tribes are forbidden to
prepare food for anyone save themselves. It was believed that, were a
menstruating woman to step astride a rifle, a bow, or a lance, the weapon
would
have no utility. Medicine men are in the habit of making a "protective''
clause whenever they concoct a "medicine,'' which is to the effect that the
"medicine'' will be effective provided that no woman in this condition is
allowed to approach the tent of the official in charge. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 41 | Author: | Grinnell, George Bird | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Little Friend Coyote | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was in the summer when the Blackfoot and Piegan tribes were
camped together that the Blackfoot, Front Wolf, first noticed
Su-ye-sai-pi, a Piegan girl, and liked her, and determined to make her
his wife. She was young and handsome and of good family, and her
parents were well-to-do, for her father was a leading warrior of
his tribe. Front Wolf was himself a noted warrior, and had grown
rich from his forays on the camps of the enemy, so when he asked
for the young woman her parents were pleased—pleased to give their
daughter to such a strong young man, and pleased to accept the
thirty horses he sent them with the request. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 47 | Author: | Gurley, Ralph Randolph | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Liberian Letters: Ralph Randolph Gurley to Dr. James H. Minor
1857 November 4 | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | Thanks for your fafavor of the
30th
ult
enclosing a printed letter from William
Douglass. From the health experienced at Careysburg, we derive animating hopes of the salubrity of
the highland Districts of Liberia. I shall
publish in the January Repository Douglass'
letter, with your introductory Remarks. Mr
Mc'Lain informed me that he sent nothing to your people by the
Stevens,
because, without loss he could not buy with Virginia money, & that on the whole, he thought as
well, to postpone sending
until another opportunity. He will
be most happy however to attend to any of your explicit instructions.
He desires me to inquire, when and to what extent, you will feel
authorized to pay sundry orders from the
Terrill
people forwarded by Mr
Seys
? Contributions, at present, are scarcity, & far
between, though we have reason to thank God for notice of one or two Generous bequests. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 49 | Author: | Garland, Hamlin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Drifting Crane | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE people of Boomtown invariably spoke of Henry Wilson as the
oldest settler in the Jim Valley, as he was of Buster County; but
the Eastern man, with his ideas of an "old settler," was surprised
as he met the short, silent, middle-aged man, who was very loath to
tell anything about himself, and about whom many strange and
thrilling stories were told by good story-tellers. In 1870 he was
the only settler in the upper part of the valley, living alone on
the banks of the Elm, a slow, tortuous stream pulsing lazily down
the valley, too small to be called a river and too long to be
called a creek. For two years, it is said, Wilson had only the
company of his cattle, especially during the winter-time, and now
and then a visit from an Indian, or a trapper after mink and musk-rats. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 50 | Author: | Garshine, Mikhailovich Vsevolod, 1855-1888 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Gipsy's Bear — A Story | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the steppe the town of Bielsk nestles on the river Rokhla. In
September of 1857 the town was in a state of unwonted excitement. The
Government's order for the killing of the bears was to be executed. The
unhappy gipsies had journeyed to Bielsk from four districts with all their
household effects, their horses and their bears. More than a hundred of
these awkward beasts, ranging from tiny cubs to huge "old men" whose
coats had become whitish-gray with age, had collected on the town
common. The gipsies had been given five years' grace from the
publication of the order prohibiting performing bears, and this period
had expired. They were now to appear at specified places and
themselves destroy their supporters. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 51 | Author: | Garland, Hamlin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Two Stories of Oklahoma | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | NUKO, an Arapahoe warrior, owned a rooster which he kept in his
camp near the agency on the Canadian River of Oklahoma. He guarded
his pet with zealous care. It was his inseparable companion, often
carried under his arm as he galloped across the prairie on his
visits to his friends and relatives. No ridicule could cause him
to neglect his pet. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 53 | Author: | Gill, William Fearing | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edgar Allan Poe—After Fifty Years | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Rufus W. Griswold, "the pedagogue vampire," as he was aptly
termed by one of his contemporaries, committed the immortal infamy
of blighting a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works, which he
found ready at hand, by supplementing his perfunctory labors with
a calumniating memoir of the poet, nearly fifty years ago, there
were many protests uttered by the poet's contemporaries at home and
abroad. Charles Baudelaire, the Poe of French literature, in his
tribute to the dead poet, indignantly wrote: "What is the matter
with America? Are there, then, no regulations there to keep the
curs out of the cemeteries?" In view of the fact that the Griswold
biography of Poe has been incontestably discredited, and proved to
be merely a scaffolding of malevolent falsehoods—the outcome of
malice and mendacity—the deference paid to Griswold and his
baleful work in the memoir accompanying the latest publication of
Poe's writings seems well-nigh incomprehensible. Professor
Woodberry excuses the detractions of Poe's vilifier, "in view of
the contemporary uncertainty of Poe's fame, the difficulty of
obtaining a publisher, and the fact that the editorial work was not
paid for." Most amazing reasons, indeed, in justification of
Griswold's interposition as the poet's biographer—an office that
had been specially bequeathed by the dying genius to his bosom
friend, Nathaniel P. Willis. Had Willis shirked this
responsibility, there might have been some excuse for Griswold and
his horde of gutter-snipes, who wreaked their venom upon the name
of Poe, outraging every tenet of common decency; but Willis
performed his delegated duty reverently, sympathetically, and
adequately. No publisher with any sense of justice would have
presumed to include any other memoir than that of Willis in the
original edition of Poe's works. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 54 | Author: | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Herland | | | | Published: | 1992 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have
brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would
be a very different story. Whole books full of notes, carefully
copied records, firsthand descriptions, and the pictures — that's
the worst loss. We had some bird's-eyes of the cities and parks;
a lot of lovely views of streets, of buildings, outside and in, and
some of those gorgeous gardens, and, most important of all, of
the women themselves. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 57 | Author: | Gilman, Arthur | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Women Who Go to College | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It could be truthfully said thirty years ago that there was no
system in woman's education, and one need not go far backward in
the history of the subject to reach the time when, so far as any
advanced instruction whatever is concerned, woman was almost
completely overlooked. In the Middle Ages, when education was an
accomplishment of the very few, and was considered a necessity for
no one except the professional clerics, and not always for them,
women had a chance to get the small measure of learning that was
within the reach of common men. As the world in general grew
wiser, women were left behind and were obliged to satisfy in
private any scholarly longings that they might have, or to sit
illiterate in their towers embroidering shields for graceless
Launcelots and singing the "song of love and death." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 59 | Author: | Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Man of Flesh and Blood. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE elements without were not in harmony with the spirit which it
was desired should be engendered within. By music, by gay
decorations, by speeches from prominent men, the board in charge of
the boys' reformatory was striving to throw about this dedication
of the new building an atmosphere of cheerfulness and good-will —
an atmosphere vibrant with the kindness and generosity which emanated
from the State, and the thankfulness, appreciation, and loyalty
which it was felt should emanate from the boys. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 64 | Author: | Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A May Evening | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE were sounds of merriment in the village, and a chorus of
song murmured, stream-like, through its single street. It was the hour
when lads and lasses, after their hard day's work, meet in the mellow
gloaming to express their feelings in melodies which, though glad, are
never without a strain of sadness. The pensive eventide was dreamily
embracing the blue heaven, and transforming every visible object into
something vague, shadowy, and ghost-like. The brooding gloom settled
into night, and still the stream of song flowed on without
surcease. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 66 | Author: | Goldberg, Isaac | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | New York's Yiddish Writers | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | STRANGELY enough, it has long been a question to many, not
alone whether the modern Jews have any literature, but whether
Yiddish itself is a language. Many have been the prophecies which
predicted the immediate extinction of the tongue, and yet, like the
fabled Phoenix of old, it has risen new-born from its own ashes. Let
prophets deal in futures — and it must be admitted that from certain
signs familiar to students of linguistic evolution Yiddish would
seem to be eventually doomed — the fact remains that to-day it is
enjoying what amounts practically to a renaissance. And the
question whether modern Jews have a literature is settled by a
reading of the works themselves. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 67 | Author: | Goldsmith, Oliver | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Vicar of Wakefield | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and
brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single
and only talked of population. From this motive I had scarcely taken
orders a year, before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and
choose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surf
ace, but such qualities as would wear well, To do her justice, she was a
good-natured, notable woman; and as for breeding, there were few
country ladies who could show more. She could read any English book
without much spelling; but for pickling, preserving, and cookery none
could excel her. She prided herself also upon being an excellent
contriver in housekeeping, though I never could find that we grew richer
with all her contrivances. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 70 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "Confronting Life" | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CONFRONTING Life, two people stood—both discontent. And to the
question, "What do you expect of me?" one made answer with weary
voice: "I am distracted by the cruelty of thy contradictions. Feebly my
reason strives to understand the meaning of existence, and with
perplexing gloom my heart is filled before thee. My consciousness doth
tell me man is the highest of creations." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 71 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Personal Recollections of Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [As a narrative of the visit of the best known of Russian short
story
writers to another regarded as still greater, the following article has an
especial interest. Maxim Gorky has long been popular in this country, and
his imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy to overthrow the Government
has recently brought him into greater prominence. Chekhov's stories are
now beginning to be translated into English, and since they are much wider
in scope and more varied in style than Gorky's they are likely to find
more readers among us. According to Tolstoy Chekhov is the founder of a
new school of literature, and his influence will be lastingly felt
throughout the world. He was born in 1860, the son of a serf who had
freed himself by his own ability. He was educated as a physician in the
University of Moscow, and began to write for college journals at the age
of nineteen. His death last year is deeply regretted, since he was at the
hight of his powers of production and his stories were becoming
somewhat more optimistic in tone. The illustrations accompanying this
article are all taken from caricatures originally published in Russian
newspapers and magazines. The translation is by Lizzie B.
Gorin.—EDITOR.] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 72 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Philip Vasilyevich's Story | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [Either on account of lack of evidence or because of the
protests of literary men and societies throughout the world, Maxim
Gorky has at last been released from prison, and he will not be
prosecuted on the charge of conspiring to overthrow the Russian
Government. It is not to be expected that his recent experiences in
the hands of the police will modify the appropriateness of the
pseudonym under which he writes, Gorky, "the Bitter One."—EDITOR.] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 73 | Author: | Gorren, Aline | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Womanliness as a Profession | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE question here discussed was one sure to arise, among us,
in America, sooner or later; and one, among the thoughtful, and
those who watch the signs of the future, also sure to arouse
interest of a special and peculiar kind. With the increasing
facilities for the higher intellectual development now offered to
the American woman, along with her sisters the world over—only in
greater degree, and more generally, to the American woman than to
any other—the effect which such development would have upon her
essential womanliness was bound to become a matter of anxious
observation. It is so become, in many quarters, now. People are
trying to find out how the "higher education" affects the women of
other countries, and seeking to compare the notes and suggestions
thus gathered up with what is to be seen here. Whether the higher
education shall be given the sex is no longer at all the affair
considered. It is conceded that the thing must be done; the
experiment is made; the point now is to observe what will come
next. For, certainly, unless we were very short-sighted, we were
prepared for the fact that something would come next. One subjects
nothing organic to a changed environment with any sane impression
that it will remain exactly as it was before the change. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 74 | Author: | Grahame, Kenneth | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Dream Days | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the matter of general culture and attainments, we
youngsters stood on pretty level ground. True, it was always
happening that one of us would be singled out at any moment,
freakishly, and without regard to his own preferences, to wrestle
with the inflections of some idiotic language long rightly dead;
while another, from some fancied artistic tendency which always
failed to justify itself, might be told off without warning to
hammer out scales and exercises, and to bedew the senseless keys
with tears of weariness or of revolt. But in subjects common to
either sex, and held to be
necessary even for him whose ambition soared no higher than to
crack a whip in a circus-ring—in geography, for instance,
arithmetic, or the weary doings of kings and queens—each would
have scorned to excel. And, indeed, whatever our individual
gifts, a general dogged determination to shirk and to evade kept
us all at much the same dead level,—a level of ignorance
tempered by insubordination. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 75 | Author: | Grahame, Kenneth | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Golden Age | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LOOKING back to those days of old, ere the
gate shut behind me, I can see now that to
children with a proper equipment of parents
these things would have worn a different
aspect. But to those whose nearest were
aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind
may be allowed. They treated us, indeed,
with kindness enough as to the needs of the
flesh, but after that with indifference (an
indifference, as I recognise, the result of a
certain stupidity), and therewith the
commonplace conviction that your child is
merely animal. At a very early age I
remember realising in a quite impersonal and
kindly way the existence of that stupidity,
and its tremendous influence in the world;
while there grew up in me, as in the parallel
case of Caliban upon Setebos, a vague sense
of a ruling power, wilful and freakish, and
prone to the practice of vagaries—"just
choosing so"; as, for instance, the giving
of authority over us
to these hopeless and incapable creatures,
when it might far more reasonably have been
given to ourselves over them. These elders,
our betters by a trick of chance, commanded
no respect, but only a certain blend of
envy — of their good luck — and pity — for their
inability to make use of it. Indeed, it was
one of the most hopeless features in their
character (when we troubled ourselves to
waste a thought on them: which wasn't often)
that, having absolute licence to indulge in
the pleasures of life, they could get no good
of it. They might dabble in the pond all
day, hunt the chickens, climb trees in the
most uncompromising Sunday clothes; they were
free to issue forth and buy gunpowder in the
full eye of the sun — free to fire cannons and
explode mines on the lawn: yet they never did
any one of these things. No irresistible
Energy haled them to church o' Sundays; yet
they went there regularly of their own
accord, though they betrayed no greater
delight in the experience than ourselves. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 76 | Author: | Grahame, Kenneth | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Wind in the Willows | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters;
then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of
whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes
of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary
arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below
and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house
with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small
wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor,
said `Bother!'
and `O blow!' and also `Hang spring-cleaning!'
and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his
coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he
made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to
the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences
are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and
scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled
and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws
and muttering to himself, `Up we go! Up we go!' till at last,
pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself
rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 80 | Author: | Grinnell, George Bird | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Indian on the Reservation | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN an Indian tribe had given up fighting, surrendered to the
whites, and taken up a reservation life, its position was that of a group
of men in the stone age of development, suddenly brought into contact
with modern methods, and required on the instant to renounce all they
had ever been taught and all they had inherited; to alter their practices of
life, their beliefs, and their ways of thought; and to conform to manners
and ways representing the highest point reached by civilization. It is
beyond the power of our imagination to grasp the actual meaning to any
people of such a condition of things. History records no similar case
with which we can compare it. And if it is hard for us to comprehend
such a situation, what must it have been for the savage to understand it,
and, still more, to act it out? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 82 | Author: | Grinnell, George Bird | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Wild Indian | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IF after a long period the Indian problem remains a problem still,
it is because we have no sufficient knowledge of the people we are
striving to teach. The solution of the problem is not to be reached until
the stronger race shall understand the weaker, and, in the light of that
understanding, shall deal with it wisely and well. I say this with the
more confidence because for many years I have lived with the plains
people in their homes, engaging in their pursuits, sharing their joys and
sorrows, standing toward them in all essentials as one of themselves. I
have thus learned to think and feel as an Indian thinks and feels, and to
see things as he sees them and from his point of view. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 83 | Author: | Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince, written by
himself. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS born in the city of Baurnou, my mother was the eldest daughter of the
reigning King there. I was the youngest of six children, and particularly
loved by my mother, and my grand-father almost doated on me. I had,
from my infancy, a curious turn of mind ; was more grave and
reserved, in my disposition, than either of my brothers and sisters, I
often teazed them with questions they could not answer ; for which
reason they disliked me, as they supposed that I was either foolish or
insane. 'T was certain that I was, at times, very unhappy in myself : It
being strongly impressed on my mind that there was some GREAT
MAN of power which resided above the sun, moon and stars, the
objects of our worship. — My dear, indulgent mother would bear
more with me than any of my friends beside. — I often raised
my hand to heaven, and asked her who lived there ?
Was much dissatisfied when she told me the sun, moon and stars, being
persuaded, in my own mind, that there must be some SUPERIOR
POWER. — I was
frequently lost in wonder at the works of the creation : Was afraid, and
uneasy, and restless, but could not tell for what. I wanted to be
informed of things that no person could tell me ; and was always
dissatisfied. — These wonderful impressions began in my
childhood, and followed me continually till I left my parents, which
affords me matter of admiration and thankfulness. To this moment I
grew more and more uneasy every day, insomuch that one Saturday
(which is the day on which we kept our sabbath) I laboured under
anxieties and fears that cannot be expressed ; and, what is more
extraordinary, I could not give a reason for it. — I rose, as our
custom is, about three o'clock (as we are obliged to be at our place of
worship an hour before the sun rise) we say nothing in our worship, but
continue on our knees with our hands held up, observing a strict silence
till the sun is at a certain height, which I suppose to be about 10 or 11
o'clock in England : When, at a certain sign made
by the Priest, we get up (our duty being over) and disperse to our
different houses. — Our place of meeting is under a large palm
tree ; we divide ourselves into many congregations ; as it is impossible
for the same tree to cover the inhabitants of the whole city, though they
are extremely large, high and majestic ; the beauty and usefulness of
them are not to be described ; they supply the inhabitants of the country
with meat, drink and clothes ; * the body of
the palm tree is very large ; at a certain season of the year they tap it,
and bring vessels to receive the wine, of which they draw great
quantities, the quality of which is very delicious : The leaves of this
tree are of a silky nature ; they are large and soft ; when they are dried
and pulled to pieces, it has much the same appearance as the English
flax, and the inhabitants of BOURNOU manufacture it for clothing,
&c. This tree likewise produces a plant, or substance, which has
the appearance of a cabbage, and very like it, in taste almost the same :
It grows between the branches. Also the palm tree produces a nut,
something like a cocoa, which contains a kernel, in which is a
large quantity of milk, very pleasant to the taste : The shell is of a hard
substance, and of a very beautiful appearance, and serves for basons,
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