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Download or read book Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, Vol. 1 written by Alexander Von Humboldt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, Vol. 1: With Descriptions and Views of Some of the Most Striking Scenes in the Cordilleras! The description of each plate, as far as the nature of the subject admits, forms a separate treatise. I have dwelt more at length on such as could throw light on the analogies existing between the inhabitants of the two hemispheres and we shall be surprised tofmd, towards the end of the fifteenth century, in a world which we call new, those ancient institutions, those reli gions notions, and that style of building, which Seem in Asia to indicate the very dawn of civilization. The characteristic features of nations, like the internal con stru'ction of plants, spread over the surface of the globe, were the impression of a pn mitive type, notwithstanding the variety produced by the difference of climates, the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.