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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: provocation.]
[Footnote j: See "Histoire de la Louisiane," by Lepage Dupratz;
Charlevoix, "Histoire de la Nouvelle France"; "Lettres du Rev. G.
Hecwelder;" "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,"
v. I; Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia," pp. 135-190. What is said
by Jefferson is of especial weight, on account of the personal
merit of the writer, of his peculiar position, and of the matter-
of-fact age in which he lived.]
[Footnote k: See Appendix, D.]
Although we have here traced the character of a primitive
people, yet it cannot be doubted that another people, more
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