...the simple faith of a "poor Indian" whose "untutor'd mind" may seem naive to the highly educated; but His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way. (An Essay on Man, 1.101 -2) Unlike Pope. Akenside believes that learning, even when manifested in the...

...native Americans in the early-eighteenth century imagination: Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;...Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island...