Note 929 — Chapter III
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Max Müller dissents from this. Chips, i. 326. Müller reminds us, if we are suspicious of the disjointed manner of what has come down to us as the Popul Vuh, that “consecutive history is altogether a modern idea, of which few only of the ancient nations had any conception. If we had the exact words of the Popul Vuh, we should probably find no more history there than we find in the Quiché MS. as it now stands.”