88 The Andes and the Amazon, 



their snowy summits preach sermons on purity to Quitonian 

 society, but in vain ; and the great thoughts of God written 

 all over the Andes are unable to lift this proud capital out 



of the mud and mire of mediaeval ignorance and supersti- 

 tion. The established religion is the narrowest and most 

 intolerant form of Romanism. Mountains usually have a 



South American states, he gave us this order : Chile, Brazil, Argentine Re- 

 ]iubUc, Venezuela, New Granada, Central America, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia. 

 Ecuador. 



