True, the white man brought great change. But the
varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and
inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the
part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is
progress?
I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground
in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting
the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with
the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true
essence of civilization....
[p.515, Chief Luther Standing Bear, _From the Land of the
Spotted Eagle_, 1933]