The boast of the modern Indian that he is of the same race as his English ruler, is entirely without basis in fact, and the little dark native lives amid the monuments of a departed grandeur, professing the religion and speaking the tongue of his long forgotten Nordic conquerors, without the slightest claim to blood kinship.


The Passing of the Great Race (1916)

Madison Grant Quotes

The boast of the modern Indian that he is of the same race as his English ruler, is entirely without basis in fact, and the little dark native lives...

The boast of the modern Indian that he is of the same race as his English ruler, is entirely without basis in fact, and the little dark native lives...

The boast of the modern Indian that he is of the same race as his English ruler, is entirely without basis in fact, and the little dark native lives...

The boast of the modern Indian that he is of the same race as his English ruler, is entirely without basis in fact, and the little dark native lives...