The statements of the natives and the terms of their religious language unite in confirming this opinion.
It is not right to depreciate the force of these facts simply because we have made up our minds that a people in the intellectual stage of the Peruvians could not have mounted to such a pure air of religion.

A prejudgment of this kind is unworthy of a scientific mind.

The evidence is complete that the terms I have quoted did belong to the religious language of ancient Peru.

They express the conception of divinity which the thinkers of that people had formed.

And whether it is thought to be in keeping or not with the rest of their development, it is our bounden duty to accept it, and explain it as best we can.