Excerpt from History of the New World Called America, Vol. 1 Between the religious and cosmological ideas of the New World and those of the Old there is sometimes a parallelism so close as to suggest doubts as to the genuineness of the former, especially in instances so striking as that of the Peruvian account of the Creation (p. It has been the writer's practice, in dealing with alleged facts of this kind, to begin by rejecting them, to search for facts which might corroborate or discredit the statement, and only to admit ...
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Excerpt from History of the New World Called America, Vol. 1 Between the religious and cosmological ideas of the New World and those of the Old there is sometimes a parallelism so close as to suggest doubts as to the genuineness of the former, especially in instances so striking as that of the Peruvian account of the Creation (p. It has been the writer's practice, in dealing with alleged facts of this kind, to begin by rejecting them, to search for facts which might corroborate or discredit the statement, and only to admit them after a rigid and patient scrutiny. Such a process usually results in the admission of much which at first appears incredible. The writer entertains no doubt that the Peruvian legend of the creation is a genuine remnant of indigenous thought. The truth seems to be that during the earlier stages of advancement the human mind works everywhere in much the same way: it would, indeed, be strange if the same elementary ideas were not thus en countered ia places widely distant from each other. Such coincidences give to the study of ethnology one of its principal fascinations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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