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and, also, as you say, it would be only a curiosity when completed and of little value practically. You and I will do our utmost to extract from the language the thought and the belief of the people and try to show the world that the Omaha did think, that they did draw inspiration from the natural objects that met their gaze and endeavored to seek for the great mystery, Wakonda. This brings to my mind two lines in a hymn.

"True science, is to learn His name,
True life, is to obey His law"

All that Science teaches us, of how this world is made, how the various forms of life are manifest, the plants, the trees, the animals, the movements of the atmosphere, the clouds, the storms of wind and rain, the physical life of man and his relations to others, then to look beyond into the vast starry skies the myriad suns and their worlds, all