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Toltecans of Yucatan. "Banish," says Dr. Gall, "music, 

 poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, all the arts and 

 sciences, and let your Homers, Raphaels, Michael Angelos, 

 Glucks, and Canovas, be forgotten, yet let men of genius of 

 every description spring up, and poetry, music, painting, 

 architecture, sculpture, and all the arts and sciences, will 

 again shine out in all their glory. Twice within the records 

 of history has the human race traversed the great circle of its 

 entire destiny, and twice has the rudeness of barbarism been 

 followed by a higher degree of refinement. It is a great mis- 

 take to suppose one people to have proceeded from another on 

 account of their conformity of manners, customs, and arts. 

 The swallow of Paris builds its nest like the swallow of 

 Vienna, but does it thence follow that the former sprung 

 from the latter ? With the same causes we have the same 

 effects ; with the same organization we have the manifesta- 

 tion of the same powers." 



