The quotation in the text is from the "Golden Verses," given in Passow's lexicon under the word ~tetraktys: nai ma ton hametera psycha paradonta tetraktyn, pagan aenaou physeos~.
"The most sacred of all things," said this famous teacher, "is Number; and next to it, that which gives Names;" a truth that the lapse of three thousand years is just enabling us to appreciate.
[68-2] Ximenes, _Or.

de los Indios_, etc., p.

5.
[68-3] See Sepp, _Heidenthum und dessen Bedeutung fuer das Christenthum_, i.p.464 sqq., a work full of learning, but written in the wildest vein of Joseph de Maistre's school of Romanizing mythology.
[69-1] Brasseur, _Hist.

du Mexique_, ii.p.227, _Le Livre Sacre des Quiches_, introd.p.ccxlii.The four provinces of Peru were Anti, Cunti, Chincha, and Colla.

The meaning of these names has been lost, but to repeat them, says La Vega, was the same as to use our words, east, west, north, and south (_Hist.