Capitolo 19
becomes an inheritance for extraneous; new sciences have enriched
human life, and the equitable structure of the modern civilization has
risen on the ruins of the past. Many centuries, with them
load of the human hopes and fears, have away sped in the past,
Thebes since then One hundred-checked" it protected her/it population abounding,
where now it is but a mournful group of ruins. He/she anchors to-day, far
under the inexorable sands of his/her desert, we find the ill-mannered ones
flint-bows that you/they force us to bring again the time of man
before aspect in Egypt to such a remote past that her grandiose
become ruins a thing of yesterday in comparison to them.
In the New World, mysterious tumults and earth-job gigantic
you arrest our attention. Here we find abandoned mines, and there us
you/he/she can trace the places of ancient fields and the fortifications.
The Indians of the grasslands seem to be thrusted in on a more equitable
civilization. We find here the evidences of a population that it abounds.
In the presence of their ruins that you/they impose, we cannot think that
nomad attacks with ferocity built them. Them damage rather the evidences of a
people that have mended the residences and it seem to implicate the possession
of a civilization taller than that of the Indians.
These questions demand solution; but as us we resolve the
problem? Safe here and there an abandoned field or a tumult of burial,
perhaps containing articles of use or the adornment, all the traces have
enfeebled. Their earth-job and tumults are quickly leveled
from the plow of modern times, and the researcher of the future is able
only you learn from books of their mysterious builders. In Mexico,
and more distant the south, we find the ruins of great cities. To the
student of the antiquity, these overcome far in interest the they ruined
city of the Nile or valley of Euphrates. Babylon of old man, with his
walls, towers and pleasure it applies, it was marvelous indeed.
In our his/her own cities of earth, if not as ancient, still fallen in more
picturesque downfall, compensates the jobs of the explorer.