It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in Lon...don.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and wh...irlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs; to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor in it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a s...ystem of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The island seemed deserted to-day, yet I observed some new houses among the weather-stained ones, as if the tribe still had a desi...gn upon life; but generally they have a very shabby, forlorn, and cheerless look, being all back side and woodshed, not homesteads, even Indian homesteads.... The church is the only trim-looking building, but that is not Abenaki, that was Rome's doings. Good Canadian it may be, but it is poor Indian. These were once a powerful tribe. Politics are all the rage with them now. I even thought that a row of wigwams, with a dance of powwows, and a prisoner tortured at the stake, would be more respectable than this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »