How American Indians Love
本书摘录：
The Red Lover
_ "On the subject of love no persons have been less understood than the Indians," wrote Thomas Ashe in 1806.
"It is said of them that they have no affection,
and that the intercourse of the sexes is sustained
by a brutal passion remote from tenderness and
sensibility. This is one of the many gross errors
which have been propagated to calumniate these
innocent people."
Waitz remarks (III., 102):
"How much alike human nature is everywhere is
evinced by the remarkable circumstance that
notwithstanding the degradation of woman, cases
of romantic love are not even very rare"
among Indians. "Their languages," writes Professor Brinton (_R.P._, 54),
"supply us with evidence that the sentiment of love was awake among them, and this is corroborated by the incidents we learn of their domestic life.... Some of the songs and stories of this race seem to reveal even a capability for romantic love such as would do credit to a mode
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