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and not where it chooses itself." (Garcilaso, Comment. 

 Reales, P. i. lib. viii. cap. 8, p. 276.) The view taken of 

 the circling round of a heavenly body, as if it was fastened 

 to a cord, is very striking. As Huayna Capac died at 

 Quito in 1525, seven years before the arrival of the Spaniards, 

 he no doubt used, instead of " res atada," the general ex- 

 pression of an " animal " fastened to a cord ; but indeed, 

 even in Spanish, "res" is by no means limited to oxen, but 

 may be applied to any tame cattle. We cannot examine 

 here how far the Padre may have mingled parts of his own 

 sermons with the heresies of the Inca, with the view of 

 weaning the natives from the official and dynastic worship 

 of the Sun, the religion of the Court. We see in the very 

 conservative State policy, and in the maxims of State and 

 proceedings of the Inca Roca, the conqueror of the province 

 of Charcas, the solicitude which was felt to guard strictly 

 the lower classes of the people from such doubts. This 

 Inca founded schools for the upper classes only, and forbade, 

 under heavy penalties, to teach the common people any 

 thing, " lest they should become presumptuous, and should 

 create disturbances in the State!" (No es lecito que 

 ensenen a los hijos de los Plebeios las Ciencias, porque la 

 gente baja no se eleve y ensobervezca y msnoscabe la Re- 

 pub lica; Garcilaso, P. i. p. 276.) Thus the policy of the 

 Inca's theocracy was almost the same as that of the Slave 

 States in the United Eree States of North America. 



( 17 ) p. 295. " The restoration of an empire of the Incas." 

 I have treated this subject more fully in another place 



