the new ideas that were introduced among us by the priests and
traders that were permitted to visit us from time to time, many of our
people sought to establish a new order of things; like that prevailing
throughout the greater part of the world to-day. But in order that I may
make clear what I am about to say, I must first tell you, that the
Tewana are as quick to recognize and encourage talent and genius as were
the ancient Greeks--that there are many artists among my people who have
developed their arts to a high degree of perfection--poets, painters,
sculptors and musicians.

"These artists, especially, became imbued with the new ideas, and
instead of continuing to create for art's sake only, as had been the
custom of their fathers, embellishing their houses and articles of use
with their artistic creations, or spreading their poetry and music and
national sagas abroad after the manner of the Minnesingers of old, they,
with the others who had become affected, began to adopt new customs--to
build churches and temples in which to worship and preserve their arts,
and sought to introduce money and taxation and all that they entail
among the people in order that the new institutions might be maintained.

"The disaffection became widespread, affecting about half the people.
The White Cloud and my father did all in their power to persuade the
renegades, as they were called, to return to the old ways again;
maintaining that God dwelt in the open, not in temples, and that the
works of man which entailed the burden of taxation for their
maintenance, depriving man of his freedom, were not worth retaining.
That it was not economy, but extravagance to maintain them, and an
unnecessary waste of energy; for the instant man, in his material
evolution, goes beyond the procuring of the necessities of life, he
becomes immeshed in the creations of his own world and a slave to them.
But in vain. They refused to listen to the wisdom of their words and
only laughed in answer to their pleadings. Whereupon, the most terrible
battles ensued; costing the lives of fifty thousand of our best fighting
men and women; for among us, the women, like the men, are warriors, and
quite as capable of self-defense. They likewise take part in all our
games. In fact, they receive the same training in all things as the men
in order that they may be equally fitted to bear the responsibilities of
citizenship.

"Our women are trained for battle, not particul