. L'histoire universelle de Ridpath : un récit de l'origine, de la condition primitive et du développement ethnique des grandes races de l'humanité, et des principaux événements dans l'évolution et le progrès de la vie civilisée parmi les hommes et les nations, de sources récentes et authentiques avec une enquête préliminaire sur le moment, le lieu et la manière du commencement . villes-dans ces pays. Il y avait des mannequins et du commerce intérieur, avec la pratique des arts et une certaine mesure de la vie intellectuelle. Il ne fait aucun doute que le système religieux cruel, sanglant et existant parmi les races de t

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. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . cities-in these countries. There were manu-factures and domestic commerce, withthe practice of the arts and a certainmeasure of the intellectual life. It can hardly be doubted that thecold, cruel, and bloody religious systemprevailing among the races in this part CEN TRA L A ME RICA NS.—Q UICHES A ND JILIYA S. 551 of our continents weighed down thespirit of the people, and at length con-tributed to their decline and extinction.Spirit of the It is not unwarranted to S^SfSSi say that the Practice of beliefs. human sacrifice to bloody idols could not permanently coexist withthe spirit of progress in any people.It is not that the race would necessarily pying the country now called Los Altos.Here lies the district of Quiche, pre-serving the name of the race. If theMayas were connected in their originand manner of life with the Aztecs, itappears that the Quiches had a like con-nection with the older Toltecs. How-ever this may be, the country at the timeof the conquest was thickly peopled. GUATEMALAN LANDSCAPE—Valley of Pojlochic. be reduced by the sacrifice of its mem-bers, but the instincts of humanity andthe civilizing tendencies would at lengthbe atrophied or paralyzed by such atroc-ity done to the inherent and universalnature of man. If the Mayas proper may be assignedgeographically to Yucatan, in like man-ner may the Quiches beassigned to Guatemala.The latter seem aforetimeto have been a race of highlanders occu- Race of the Quiches; civil or-ganization. with a strong and at least half-civilizedrace. Civilly, the nation was organizedin the monarchical form. The Spaniardsnoted, however, the disposition of theGuatemalan kings

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