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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: present race. The Indians of our time are unable to give any
information relative to the history of this unknown people.
Neither did those who lived three hundred years ago, when America
was first discovered, leave any accounts from which even an
hypothesis could be formed. Tradition - that perishable, yet
ever renewed monument of the pristine world - throws no light
upon the subject. It is an undoubted fact, however, that in this
part of the globe thousands of our fellow-beings had lived. When
they came hither, what was their origin, their destiny, their
history, and how they perished, no one can tell. How strange does
it appear that nations have existed, and afterwards so completely
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