of the Old World and the New Worid. 173 
whole animal kingdom remains in an inferior condition. It is 
subjected to the watery element, and to the vegetable world ; for 
in those regions where vegetable life is the superior, animal life 
stands but in the second degree. 
North America, or in consequence of her more conti- 
nental character, posse some superior types, which recall to 
mind, and perhaps aca five of the Old World. The majestic 
bison, the deer, the elk, and the bear, give evidence of that same 
vigorous northern nature which predominates in the temperate : 
continents, and of which, as we shall see, North America pos- q 
sesses her sh 
Man himself, the indigenous man I mean, bears in his whole 
character the ineffaceable stamp of this peculiarly vegetative na- 
ture. Living continually in the shadow of those virgin forests 
which overspread the earth that he inhabits, his whole nature has. + 
been modified thereby. The very copper hue of his complexion’, 
indicates that he lives not, like the negro, beneath the scorching | 
sunbeams. His lymphatic temperament betrays the preponder,, % 
ance in his nature of the vegetative element. The Indian is of © Ke 
a melancholy, cold and insensible race. ‘‘ Foreign to our hopes, i 
our joys, our griefs,” says a traveller, “it is rarely that a tear’ .. 
‘ moistens his eyes, or that a smile lights up his features.” The... 
most barbarous tortures cannot extort from hima single com-* +. . 
or jealousy. If he sometimes exhibits a display of. 7? om lee “7 
muscular force, he is yet without endurance... Who “know S Hots. 
that when the first invaders of the New World endeavored oO 
compel the: inoffensive Indians, who had received them S, 
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