Engaged however in the literary career, my first thought was how I might at the same time promote my own interest, and render some service, however trifling, to my country, that it might be said of me, Haud inutiliter vixit. […] Supposing (a most improbable event) that the study of mythology should ever become general, the public would have no right to my book except on my own terms. […] Theirs indeed is but too often the lion’s share, as I know by my own experience. […] For my own part, I view the question with tolerable indifference, as even under the present law I know how to extend my copyright. […] In a work named ‘Tales of an Indian Camp,’ which seems to be not a work of mere fiction, the chief Tecumseh says (vol. iii. 234), «The Sun is my father and the Earth is my mother, and I repose on her bosom.»