untutored sage, concentration population prolific mother evils, moral — Charles Alexander Eastman, Soul Indian

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To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.

Charles Alexander Eastman, The Soul of the Indian

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