... contradict all our actual knowledge in this branch of American Archaeology, to admit the possession, by them, at any period known to us, of an alphabet of any kind. The characters employed in picture writing by the Toltecs and Aztecs were symbolical,... Történeti tanúlmányok és jellemrajzok - Стр. 305авторы: Antal Csengery - 1870Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences - 1877 - Страниц: 416
...by the Toltecs and Aztecs were symbolical, and they have left irrefragable evidences of their high proficiency in them, but nothing more. There can be no pretence that any Indian race who ever inhabited this valley possessed an alphabet." Again he says :t " Nothing is more demonstrable... | |
| J. Gass - 1877 - Страниц: 46
...by the Toltees and Aztecs were symbolical, and they have left irrefragable evidences of their high proficiency in them, but nothing more. There can be no pretence that any Indian race who ever inhabited this valley possessed an alphabet." Again he says :t " Nothing is more demonstrable... | |
| Antal Csengery - 1884 - Страниц: 730
...épen nem». — «The characters employed in pictnre writing by the toltecs and aztees were symbolie and representative, and they have left irrefragabale...proficiency in them : but nothing more. There can be no pretenee that any Indian race possessed an alphabetic art.» oly tökéletlen, mint az indiánok képes... | |
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