Remember your Concession, for by and by we shall discard all the idolatrous Worships of the Old World, together with those of the New; The Roman, Grecian, and old Assyrian Polytheim, will no more pass Muster, than that of Mexico or Peru
For they of China and Japan, and even the inhabitants of Mexico and Peru, do almost all agree in this, that some Deity there is, that must be invok’d and worship’d: And this Principle, is so very natural, and essential to Man, that it was universally…
It would be endless to repeat their various superstitions. I shall mention only the cruel and bloody rites, which were practiced by the Mexicans in their human sacrifices, as Antonio de Herrara gives us an account,
