If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife’s permission in writing.

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

The Cathedral, for instance, is really a very grand building when seen from a little distance, with its two high towers and its cupola behind.

The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.

If you look at the arms of the Mexican Republic, on a passport or a silver dollar, you will see a representation of a rock surrounded by water.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.