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ter. The most complicated political insti- 
tutions recorded in the history of mankind 
had crushed the germe of personal liberty, 
and the founder of the empire of Couzco, 
in flattering himself with the power of 
forcing men to be happy, reduced them to 
the state of mere machines. The Peruvian 
theocracy was, no doubt, less oppressive 
than the government of the Mexican kings ; 
yet both contributed to give the monu- 
ments, the rites, and the mythology of the 
two nations, that dark and melancholy 
aspect, which forms a striking contrast with 
the elegant arts and soothing fictions of the 
people of Greece. 
Paris f April the \9>thj 1813 . 
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