Excerpt from The Story of Scraggles T of our Indians have a tra dition tnat in Me days of old animals and man naa' a common speec/z. Eac/z was able to understand Me otner, and {nougnts and language were common to all. [i was not until man oegan to regard nimself as superior to Me animals and Mine of llzem as lower an tnis oneness of speecfi and relationsnz} was lost. Since illen envy, jealousy, anger, on one side, and conceit, pride, and contempt on Me atner nave widened ine oreac/z, wn ile love nas stood wilk tearful eyes looking on at Me sad and unnatural estrangement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.