"Flathead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is that they make no allowance for character and temperament. They wish to repeal universal laws, and to patch our natural skins for us, as if they always wanted mending. That while they talk so much of the godlike nature of man, they should so forget the human natures of men! The Flathead Indian squeezes the child's skull between two boards till it shapes itself into a kind of gambrel-roof against the rain,—the readiest way, perhaps, of uniforming a tribe that wear no clothes. But does he alter the inside ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various |
