I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

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

- Edward Burnett Tylor

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter …

- Edward Burnett Tylor

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last prese…

- Edward Burnett Tylor

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 thin…

- Edward Burnett Tylor

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

- Edward Burnett Tylor