Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-03

A N the enchanted land! Ten thou M sand years ago it was peopled. M Now bats twitter their wings be- AA heath it's temple arches, snakes glide in and out over paVementS where once millions of feet trod and
 mosquitoes madden the venturous mod ern mortal who disputes occupancy of it's palaces with the nature creatures 1 Only the ghosts and shadows of a mighty people who lived and loved and hated in the enchanted land contest
 successfully with the wild things for
 possession of the homes they dwelt in in the flesh in that land before the sphinx of Egypt was built. ...# Going to Egypt this winter or next or the winter after that, are you? You will pick up a scarab or two. You will
 journey on to explore the ancient ruins of India, of Greece, of Assyria?
 In your own North American conti- nent, no more than six days journey from New York city, is the land whence Egypt itself obtained its building pat terms. In this land pyramids are plen- l ty; here be the ruins of temples after whose architecture India itself took 1 model in the palmiest days of it's civil | lization, itself so old that only from its
 ruins can modern man guess what it was like
 | CLC ouClSo SiSpudltlS WOISIl1pGu l India? In this American land of en- | chantment sacred elephants are sculp- tured upon temple walls and are lirnned l in mural paintings whose colors 10000 years have not destroyed.
 Go to Egypt and to India to study ar 1 chseology, will you, when here at our l own doors lies what is left above water l of that country which was the mother l of the most ancient civilizations of Asia l and Egypt?
 l And the peninsula of Yucatan is that l scrap of country. Twelve years pr. and Mime. Le Plongeon lived in Yuca- 1 tan, exploring its ruins. They dwelt l among tits native people, who hate the
 Spaniard, his religion and all his de- I scendants and hold to the cycle old doc l Urine of the reincarnation of souls in ! successive human bodies, like the Hin. 1 doc, ancient and modern. ''There were l giants in those days says the Bible, l We are told these giants lived in Att | lantiS, that sunken continent whose 1 Ioftiest peaks appear as the Azores is- 1 lands, and that from it Yucatan was peopled. Dr. and Mime. Le Plongeon learned the language of the gentle. re- 1 incarnationist Indians. It is the Maya 1 tongue, survival of the ancient speech l of Mayax, which was prehistoric Yu- ! catan.
 They learned, this devoted pair of ex- l plorers. to read the hieroglyphs on the 1 prehistoric walls. It was a stunning
 moment when these hieroglyphs were 1 deciphered and found to be practically l the same as those of Egypt. So alike
 are they that an Psychologist can read
 the Maya hieroglyphs of Yucatan with
 out difficulty.
 The cradle of the modern human race,
 there is reason to, believe, was Central America, and thence the race spread to
 Asia and Egypt. Agassiz decided from 1 his study of geology that America was
 the old world. The researches of the Le
 Plongeons among the mighty ruins of Yucatan confirm this Judgment. ] I have spoken thus much of Mime. Le 1 Plongeon's work because her work is
 herself. have mentioned Dr. Le Plon-
 geon because their work is one and
 they are one, if ever married pair were
 such. The happiest lot is that of hus-
 band and wife who are two intellectual
 beings in perfect sympathy. They are l lovers. they are friends. they are good