Writings
His published writings include:
- The Problem of Metaphysics (1902)
- Poetry and the Individual (1906)
- The Mid-Earth Life (1907)
- Odes on the Generations of Man (1910)
- The Religious Spirit of the American Indian (1910)
- Mythology of All Races, volume x: North American (1916); volume xi: Latin American (1920)
- Liberty and Democracy (1918)
- Letters to Teachers (1919)
- God's Drum - and Other Cycles from Indian Lore (1927)
- Truth and the Faith (1929)
- God and Man's Destiny: Inquiries into the Metaphysical Foundations of Faith (1936)
- The World's Rim - Great Mysteries of the North American Indians (1953) (Posthumous)
He wrote a volume of poetry, Odes and Lyrics (1921). In 1919 he served as president of the American Philosophical Society.
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