worship and that next degree of religious development which consists in
the worship of deities embodied in the human form. His conception of
their attributes was such as might have been expected. His gods were no
whit better than himself. Even when he borrows from Christianity the
idea of a Supreme and Universal Spirit, his tendency is to reduce Him to
a local habitation and a bodily shape; and this tendency disappears only
in tribes that have been long in contact with civilized white men.
The primitive Indian, yielding his untutored homage to One All-pervading
and Omnipotent Spirit, is a dream of poets, rhetoricians, and
sentimentalists.




THE JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA.


CHAPTER I.

1634.

NOTRE-DAME DES ANGES.


QUEBEC IN 1634.--FATHER LE JEUNE.--THE MISSION-HOUSE.--
ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY.--THE JESUITS AND THEIR DESIGNS.


Opposite Quebec lies the tongue of land called Point Levi. One who,
in the summer of the year 1634, stood on its margin and looked northward,