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Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899

"The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America"



FOOTNOTES:
[288-1] Waitz, _Anthropologie der Naturvoelker_, i. p. 459.
[288-2] Navarrete, _Viages_, iii. p. 415.
[288-3] _Relation de Cueba_, p. 140. Ed. Ternaux-Compans.
[290-1] La Vega, _Hist. des Incas_, liv. v. cap. 12.
[291-1] Morse, _Rep. on the Ind. Tribes_, App. p. 345.
[291-2] Ximenes, _Origen de los Indios de Guatemala_, p. 192; Acosta,
_Hist. of the New World_, lib. v. chap. 18.
[291-3] Joseph de Maistre, _Eclaircissement sur les Sacrifices_; Trench,
_Hulsean Lectures_, p. 180. The famed Abbe Lammenaais and Professor Sepp,
of Munich, with these two writers, may be taken as the chief exponents of
a school of mythologists, all of whom start from the theories first laid
down by Count de Maistre in his _Soirees de St. Petersbourg_. To them the
strongest proof of Christianity lies in the traditions and observances of
heathendom. For these show the wants of the religious sense, and
Christianity, they maintain, purifies and satisfies them all. The rites,
symbols, and legends of every natural religion, they say, are true and
not false; all that is required is to assign them their proper places and
their real meaning.


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