laris and the "Northern" constellations.

To me the most precious result of the preceding investigation is the
gradual recognition that the entire intellectual, moral and religious
evolution of mankind has been the result of the fixed laws which govern
the universe. From the time when our world began to revolve in space, at
intervals, a luminous point of fixity in space has existed and an unknown
force, irresistible as that which controls the magnetic needle and
gyrostat,(160) appears to have raised the mind of man from ignorance and
darkness and guided his footsteps towards a higher scale of existence and
a more elevated conception of a supreme central power.

From this, amongst favored races, the higher conception of an invisible
supreme deity seems to have been gradually developed by the human mind, as
it rose in the scale of spiritual evolution. To many, the idea that it was
the observation of the stars and the recognition of the fixity of Polaris
which first led man to realize the existence of immutable laws, and of a
supreme celestial power ruling the universe and to form the sacred sign of
the cross, will appear as the fulfilment of the text in Genesis, which
expressly mentions as the first, and therefore chief, purpose for which
the lights in the firmament were created, that "they should be for _signs_
and portents, for seasons, for days and years ... and for lights."

When we realize that all revolving spheres in space, and the beings that
may live upon them, have been, are, or shall be subject to the same
conditions as govern our tiny world, forcing their intellectual evolution
to proceed in parallel lines to ours, we are compelled to recognize the
existence of One Great Plan, and to render reverent homage to the
Master-Architect of the Universe.

APPENDIX I. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF SOME QUECHUA, NAHUATL AND MAYA WORDS.

QUECHUA. NAHUATL. MAYA.
hatun=great. huey=great. pax=name of
pacha=time, pachtli=name of festival in
name of annual annual harvest which prayers
harvest festival. were offered to
festival. obtain abundant
harvest.
yacu and atl=water. haa=water.
unu=water. aak=moist.
aakal=lagoon.