[Footnote 35: Payne, i. 139.]

[Footnote 36: Op. cit. i. 468. Mr. Payne absolutely rejects Ixtlilochitl's story of the monotheism of Nezahualcoyotl; 'Torquemada knows nothing of it,' i. 490.]

[Footnote 37: Cushing, Report, Ethnol. Bureau, 1891-92, p. 379.]

[Footnote 38: J.A.I. May 1895, pp. 341-344.]

[Footnote 39: ii. 191, 1829.]

[Footnote 40: Prim. Cult. ii. 345, 346. Ellis, ii. 193.]

[Footnote 41: Ellis, ii. 221.]

[Footnote 42: The Faiths of The World, p. 413.]

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THE OLD DEGENERATION THEORY