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ebrum has received, by descent or otherwise, various sensory impressions peculiar to man as a species, which are just as certain to guide his thoughts, actions, and destiny, as is the cerebrum of the insectivorous aye-aye to lead it to hunt successfully for larvae. [45-1] _Die Kunst im Zusammenhang der Culturentwickelung_, i. pp. 50, 252. [46-1] I offer these derivations with a certain degree of reserve, for such an extraordinary similarity in the sound of these words is discoverable in North and portions of South America, that one might almost be tempted to claim for them one original form. Thus in the Maya dialects it is _ku_, vocative _a kue_, in Natchez _kue-ya_, in the Uchee of West Florida _kauhwu_, in Otomi _okha_, in Mandan _okee_, Sioux _ogha_, _waughon_, _wakan_, in Quichua _waka_, _huaca_, in Iroquois _quaker_, _oki_, Algonkin _oki_, _okee_, Eskimo _aghatt_, which last has a singular likeness in sound to the German or Norse, _O Gott_, as some of the others have to the corresponding Finnish word _ukko_. _Ku_ in the Carib tongue means _house_, especially a temple or house of the gods. The early Spanish explorers adopted the word with the orthography _cue_, and applied it to the sacred edifices of whatever nation they discovered. For instance, they speak of the great cemetery of Teotihuacan, near Tezcuco, as the _Llano de los Cues_. [46-2] "As the high heavens, the far-off mountains look to us blue, so a blue superficies seems to recede from us. As we would fain pursue an attractive object that flees from us, so we like to gaze at the blue, not that it urges itself upon us, but that it draws us after it." Goethe, _Farbenlehre_, secs. 780, 781. [47-1] Loskiel, _Geschichte der Mission der Evang. Brueder_, p. 63: Barby, 1789. [47-2] Cogolludo, _Historia de Yucathan_, lib. iv. cap. vii. [48-1] _Rel. de la Nouv. France._ An 1636, p. 107. [48-2] This word is found in Gallatin's vocabularies (_Transactions of the Am. Antiq. Soc._, vol. ii.), and may have partially induced that distinguished ethnologist to ascribe, as he does in more than one place, whatever notions the eastern tribes had of a Supreme Being to the teachings of the Quakers. [48-3] Bruyas, _Radices Verborum Iroquaeorum_, p. 84. This work is in Shea's Library of American Linguistics, and is a most valuable contribution to philology. The same etymology is given by Lafitau, _Moeurs des Sauvages_, etc., Germ. trans., p. 65. [50-1] My autho
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