Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.