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The Myths of the New World

CHAPTER I
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The Athapascas.3.The Algonkins and Iroquois.4.The Apalachian tribes.5.The Dakotas.6.

The Aztecs.7.The Mayas.8.

The Muyscas.9.The Quichuas.10.

The Caribs and Tupis.11.

The Araucanians .-- General course of migrations .-- Age of man in America .-- Unity of type in the red race.
When Paul, at the request of the philosophers of Athens, explained to them his views on divine things, he asserted, among other startling novelties, that "God has made of one blood all nations of the earth, that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from every one of us." Here was an orator advocating the unity of the human species, affirming that the chief end of man is to develop an innate idea of God, and that all religions, except the one he preached, were examples of more or less unsuccessful attempts to do so.


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