Neverthless, chief, that isn't quite as good reason
as it mayat first seem. You believe in the Great Spirit, I know,
and yet, I conclude, it would puzzle you to show where you see
him!"
"Chingachgook can see Him everywhere - everywhere in good things
-the Evil Spirit in bad. Here, in the lake; there, in the forest;
yonder, in the clouds; in Hist, in the Son of Uncas, in Tannemund,
in Deerslayer. The Evil Spirit is in the Mingos. That I see; I
do not see the earth turn round."
"I don't wonder they call you the Sarpent, Delaware; no, I don't!
There's always a meaning in your words, and there's often a meaning
in your countenance, too! Notwithstanding, your answers doesn't
quite meet my idee. That God is observable in all nat'ral objects
is allowable, but then he is not perceptible in the way I mean.
You know there is a Great Spirit by his works, and the pale-faces
know that the 'arth turns round by its works. This is the reason
of the matter, though how it is to be explained is more than I can
exactly tell you. This I know; all my people consait that fact,
and what all the pale-faces consait, is very likely to be true."
"When the sun is in the top of that pine to-morrow, where will my
brother Deerslayer be?"
The hunter started, and he looked intently, though totally without
alarm, at his friend.
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