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achieved which, by the slower sense of hearing, require time, 

 patience, and laborious effort. 



Sight, too, is a universal language ; so that we find in every 

 primitive race the principles of Symbolism practised and under- 

 stood. Where intellect exists, the sense of sight enables man to 

 attach a meaning to the forms of objects, animate and inanimate, 

 around him. This is amply illustrated by the pictures of Indian 

 life sketched by many illustrious writers. The Mohawk brave, 

 who stands before you in his war paint, and bears on his swarthy 

 breast, indelibly tatooed, the representation of a grisly bear, a rattle 

 snake, or a beaver, proclaims in language that all who run may 

 read, that he is a formidable and powerful enemy, a secret and 

 dangerous foe, or a wise and illustrious chief Here then is the 

 origin of Symbolic Art; nor is it less conspicuous in his squaw who, 

 even in name, symbols her qualities, good or bad : her fierce and 

 angry passions, her patient and yielding temper, or her thrifty and 

 careful love. Need I remind the readers of Longfellow of the 

 charming picture which he gives in his poem of " Hiawatha," of 

 the old arrow maker's child. 



' ' With him dwelt his dark-eyed daughter, 



Wayward as the Minnehaha, 



With her moods of shade and sunshine : 



Eyes that smiled and frowned alternate ; 



Feet as rapid as the river ; 



Tresses flowing Hke the water, 



And as musical as laughter — 



And he named her from the river — 



From the waterfall he named her 



Minnehaha — laughing water. " 



Nor is it only in the Indian's name and effigy that Symbolism is 

 apparent, it exists in every important act of his life, it pervades all 

 his thoughts and feelings. Is he friendly? he smokes with you 

 the calumet, the symbol of peace ; and in the fleecy clouds rising 

 from his pipe and mingling with yours, merging and floating away 

 as one, you see a symbol of his unison with you in thought and 

 sentiment, as beautiful and appropriate as the clouds of incense, 

 typical of atonement, wafted to heaven from the swinging censor 

 of the Israelitish priest. Nor is it only to Indian life, or even 



