"Ah, my friend, 'tis true!" cried old Natty Bumppo, slapping his knee. "A man cannot know hisself if he don't know where he come from." --Jacob Franklin Temple, The Pilgrims of Templeton

Who can open the doors of his face? His teeth are terrible round about. . . By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning . . . He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. He beholdeth all things: he is a king over all the children of pride. --The King James Bible, Job 41: 14, 18, 32-34

This is a story of creation --Marmaduke Temple, Tales of the American Wilderness, 1797