Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation.
Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren
and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
-- Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
It is well to know something of the manners of various
people in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do
not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and
against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed
to think....