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“ What supremely interests the archæologist,” Professor Elliot Smith continued, “ is that we find a civilisation starting full-blown in Central America. Under Asiatic influence, it rose to great heights, but had already collapsed before the advent of the Spaniards, who may have given it the *coup de grace*. To know the real secret of Maya culture affects our whole interpretation of civilisation.