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. Others of higher office were arrayed In feathery breastplates, of more gorgeous hue Than the gay plumage of the mountain -cock, Than the pheasant's glittering pride. But what were these Or what the thin gold hauberk, when opposed To arms like ours in battle ? — Madoc ^ i. 7. We learn of the ancient Mexicans, to their 9^ EXTINCT CIVILIZATIONS honour, that in the large towns hospitals were kept for the cure of the sick and wounded soldiers, and as a permanent refuge, if disabled. Not only so, s...ays a Spanish historian, but "the surgeons placed over them were so far better than those in Europe, that they did not protract the cure to increase the pay. " Even the Red Man of the Woods, as we learn from Fennimore Cooper and Catlin, believes reverently in the Great Spirit who upholds the Universe ; and similarly his more civilized brother of Mexico or Tezcuco spoke of a Supreme Creator, Lord of Heaven and Earth. In their prayers some of the phrases were : . . . The God by whom we live, omnipresent, knowing all thoughts, giving all gifts, without whom man is nothing, invisible, incorporeal, of perfect per- fection and purity, under whose wings we find repose and a sure defence.
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