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Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.”

1. “Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”

2. “Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.”

3. “The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.”

4. “During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.”

5. “Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.”

6. “The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.”

7. “There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.”

8. “Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.”

9. “There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.”

10. “Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.”

11. “At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.”

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Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.”

12. “We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife’s permission in writing.”

13. “If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife’s permission in writing.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

14. “The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.”

15. “The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.”

16. “We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.”

17. “Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor Quote: “I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.”

18. “I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.”

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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