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| CONTENTS. | |
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| Lecture I. | |
| INTRODUCTION.—CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO. THEIR COMMON BASES OF CIVILIZATION AND RELIGION. | |
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| Importance of the history of Religion | 1 |
| The religions of Mexico and Peru, and the special importance of studying them | 7 |
| Journey to another planet | 8 |
| Parallelism of religious history in the New World and in the Old | 9 |
| Central America and Mexico, and the authorities as to their history and religion | 14 |
| Area and general character of this civilization | 18 |
| The Mayas | 20 |
| Toltecs, Chichimecs and Aztecs | 24 |
| The Aztec empire | 29 |
| Character of the religious conceptions common to Central America and Mexico | 35 |
| The serpent-god and the American cross | 38 |
| Estimate of the character and significance of the parallelisms observed | 39 |
