Legends of the Pike's Peak Region —— The Sacred Myths of the Manitou

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ISBN: 9781330109892 出版年：2016 页码：57 Ernest Whitney Forgotten Books

That the songs of a people are stronger than their laws; and the myths and traditions em bodying the sentiments upon which national character, national religion, are founded, are more powerful than the songs, which they inspire. A ballad of the people, a bit of folk lore, may teach us more than whole chapters of history; we can hardly understand history without such lights.