This is not the place to discuss tlie great pro. bletn of the Asiatic origin of the Toultecs or Aztecs. The general question of the first origin of the inhabitants of a continent is beyond the limits prescribed to history ; and is not, perhaps, even a... Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain - Էջ 131Alexander von Humboldt - 1814Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1811 - 364 էջ
...origin of the Toultecs or Aztecs. The general question of the first origin of the inhabitants of the continent is beyond the limits prescribed to ,history...philosophical question. There undoubtedly existed other pepple in Mexico at the time when the Toultecs arrived there in the course of their migration, and... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1811 - 666 էջ
...abodes on the banks of the Don or the Boristhenes? This is not the place to discuss the great problem of the Asiatic origin of the Toultecs or Aztecs. The...question of the first origin of the inhabitants of the continent is beyond the limits prescribed to history ; and is not, perhaps, even a philosophical... | |
| Godfrey Thomas Vigne - 1832 - 292 էջ
...subject, is obliged to admit that " the general question of the first origin of the inhabitants of the continent, is beyond the limits prescribed to history,...not perhaps even a philosophical question." There can be no doubt that they were a distinct race, and more civilised than the wild Indians of the present... | |
| Benjamin Moore Norman - 1843 - 390 էջ
...views with sundry striking facts, and finally modestly dismisses the subject with the remark, that " the general question of the first origin of the inhabitants...and is not, perhaps, even a philosophical question." We will candidly confess that we could never understand why philosophers have been so predisposed to... | |
| James Kennedy - 1861 - 248 էջ
...6.-), has expressed an opinion , which I believe he has never since either retracted or modified, that "the general question of the first origin of the inhabitants...and is not perhaps even a philosophical question." To this latter declaration , made by one so justly eminent in literature , I think it becomes our duty... | |
| James Kennedy - 1861 - 250 էջ
...6.), has expressed an opinion , which I believe he has never since either retracted or modified, that "the general question of the first origin of the inhabitants...and is not perhaps even a philosophical question." To this latter declaration, made by one so justly eminent in literature, I think it becomes our duty... | |
| Godfrey Thomas Vigne - 1863 - 328 էջ
...before him." Humboldt remarks :* " The general question of the first origin of the inhabitants of the continent is beyond the limits prescribed to history,...and is not perhaps even a philosophical question." Conjecture, however, will still be indulged in so long as there is uncertainty, scientifically speaking,... | |
| Godfrey Thomas Vigne - 1863 - 382 էջ
...before him." Humboldt remarks :* " The general question of the first origin of the inhabitants of the continent is beyond the limits prescribed to history,...and is not perhaps even a philosophical question." Conjecture, however, will still be indulged in so long as there is uncertainty, scientifically speaking,... | |
| Georges Pouchet - 1864 - 188 էջ
...two men, so eminent as Humboldt and Bonpland, could have approved of such lines as the following ? " The general question of the first origin of the inhabitants...continent is beyond the limits prescribed to history, perhaps it may not be even a philosophical question."^ It is true that the work in which this singular... | |
| Georges Pouchet - 1864 - 192 էջ
...two men, so eminent as Humboldt and Bonpland, could have approved of such lines as the following ? " The general question of the first origin of the inhabitants...continent is beyond the limits prescribed to history, perhaps it may not be even a philosophical question." § It is true that the work in which this singular... | |
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