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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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CENTRAL AMERICANS.—PRIMITIVE MEXR ANS. 535 manufactured with skill, and clothedthemselves with elegance and taste.Their nobles and kingswere clad in splendid ap-parel. They gave attentionimprovements, constructedstreets and highways, built storehouses,temples, and palaces, combined the ef-fort of many workmen to accomplish Manufacturesand public en-terprises. to public had many, and to them they offered sac-rifices by the agency of the priests, whoconstituted an order of the highest rank,collateral with the nobility. The sacrifice which the Aztec priestsmade at stated intervals to the deities ofthe race was of the usual two kinds,namely, of the products of the earth andof living beings; but the bloody aspect
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MEXICAN POTTERY CONE FOURTH SIZE).—From Magazine of Art, engraved by J. Andrew. given results too great for the hands ofone or a few. The religious system of this peoplehas attracted a vast deal of attention.Religious sys- Their religion was one of temandAier- the largest institutions of archy; bloody *> offerings. society. The temple and the priest appeared to overtop all otherfacts in Aztec life, and the ceremonialperformed in honor of the gods was themost stately and splendid of all the pub-lic pageants of the people. Of gods they of the expiation prevailed over the other,and gave character to the whole. Nopeople more than the Mexicans haveheld to the belief that it is necessarv tosatisfv the gods with blood. Not ancientIsrael in the heyday of his rites onMoriah shed relatively a more constantstream of blood than did the Mexicanpriests in their temples and courts aroundtheir sacrificial stones. But the differ-ence was this, that Israel substitutedbeasts for men at his altars,

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