Note 197 — Chapter IV · MEXICAN HIEROGLYPHICS—MANUSCRIPTS—ARITHMETIC—CHRONOLOGY—ASTRONOMY
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“It is a gentle and affectionate thought. That, in immeasurable heights above us, At our first birth the wreath of love was woven With sparkling stars for flowers.” Coleridge: Translation of Wallenstein, act 2, sc. 4.
Schiller is more true to poetry than history, when he tells us, in the beautiful passage of which this is part, that the worship of the stars took the place of classic mythology. It existed long before it.