Capitolo 20
Uxmal, Copan, and Palenques invite our attention. Here
hieroglyphics in abundance but any Rose Stone provisions the
proper from which the help a Champollion can extricate the mystery.
The vegetative and luxuriant growth of the tropics, with his fierce
storms, are every year accelerating the obliteration of these ruins,
and we have to improve well the time, if we learned from them
their thing they have to say some past.
The islands of the Pacific give the evidence that, you crave first the
dawn of authentic history, men lived there. Indeed, as the
islands that the gem that the ocean, from their configuration and
positions, seem to be but the elevated highlands and mountain
peaks of a continent of which you/he/she has gone down under of the blue wave
the Pacific, so, in all Polynesia the can be traced
fragmentary rests of a civilization, the greatest portion of
what you/he/she has been completely buried by the waters of forgetfulness,
going only here away and there a trace to reconstruct, if we am able,
the whole structure.
The more first rests of man are very similar in all the earths.
They consists of weapon of war and the hunting, it improves of
national use and articles of the personal adornment. Few and simple
as they is, they is able of to impart useful information as
to the first times. From their help we become eye-witnesses of the
the daily life of primitive man. We learn that missing nevertheless in
almost every thing we consider essential for comfort and
happiness, their was still operated from a lot of the same hopes and
fears as the men of the present age. The great load of the life
it was then as now the same. There was the same circle of daily paper
I work necessary incessant fact from the same struggle for
existence. Strongly ill-mannered and warlike utensils show there was the
the same abuse of the strong one on the weak as now.
This has a marvelous age in many respects. In anybody, however more
marvelous that in the diffusion of wide-expansion of knowledge.
The people to the agenda now understand more than the secrets of nature that