THE CREATION. 195 



which shall direct men into the proper paths for the production 

 and distribution of wealth" (pp. 773, 774). 



If this be true, then even under existing conditions it may be 

 said that "the stars in their courses " fight for righteousness. 

 For it would appear that co-operation, which has been so essen- 

 tial to man's success in the struggle for existence, by cultivating 

 the moral qualities upon which social fitness depends, has at 

 length brought about conditions where moralization becomes a 

 prime factor in the success and survival of society. At all 

 events it can, I think, be maintained that the law of the survival 

 of the fittest admits of another interpretation than that put upon 

 it by Prof. Huxley. It is not of necessity, as he thinks, opposed 

 to the ethical progress of the race, but under it and because of it 

 men become better through the survival of the socially fit. 



ROBERT MATHEWS. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 29, 1893. 



THE CREATION. 



A PENOBSCOT INDIAN MYTH TOLD BY ONE OF THE TRIBE TO 

 ABBY L. ALGER. 



IN the beginning God made Adam out of the earth, but he did 

 not make Glus-kabd (the Indian God). Glus-kabe' made him- 

 self out of the dirt that was kicked up in the creation of Adam. 

 He rose and walked about, but he could not speak until the Lord 

 opened his lips. 



God made the earth and the sea, and then he took counsel with 

 Glus-kabe' concerning them. He asked him if it would be better 

 to have the rivers run up on one side of the earth and down on 

 the other, but Glus-kabe' said, " No, they must all run down one 

 way." 



Then the Lord asked him about the ocean, whether it would 

 do to have it always lie still. Glus-kabe* told him, " No ! " It 

 must rise and fall, or else it would grow thick and stagnant. 



" How about fire ? " asked the Lord ; " can it burn all the time 

 and nobody put it out ? " 



Glus-kabe' said: "That would not do, for if anybody got 

 burned and fire could not be put out, they would die; but if it 

 could be put out, then the burn would get well." 



So he answered all the Lord's questions. 



After this Glus-kabe' was out on the ocean one day and the 

 wind blew so hard he could not manage his canoe. He had to go 

 back to land, and he asked his old grandmother (among Indians 

 this title is often only a mark of respect and does not always in- 



