Mission Indian Population

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    “It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
    —Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907–1961)

    “It will soon be forgotten, in these days of stoves, that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes, after the Indian fashion.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)