Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development; . exican character must be summed up as thatof a people in the making. The fact is stamped upontheir physiognomies even. Let us turn over the pagesof any book issued in Mexico and observe the portraitsof public men and of their biographies, for it willgenerally be full of these, often pandering to their features are strongly pronounced, and at times vergeupon the grotesque—we mean it in no offensive high intelligence runs riot,
Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development; . exican character must be summed up as thatof a people in the making. The fact is stamped upontheir physiognomies even. Let us turn over the pagesof any book issued in Mexico and observe the portraitsof public men and of their biographies, for it willgenerally be full of these, often pandering to their features are strongly pronounced, and at times vergeupon the grotesque—we mean it in no offensive high intelligence runs riot, and an idealism untem-pered by sobriety and practice, with strong passions, andlove of show. But they mark a people, not decadent,but evolving. The Mexicans are at the beginning, notthe end, of their civilisation ; the rise, not the fall, of theirlife. Here is the material of a vigorous and prolific racewhich may be destined to bulk largely—like the wholeof Spanish-America—in the future regime of the civili-sation of the white man. The era of glorious progress—to use the Mexicanterm—which the long dictatorship of the present famous I. A FAMOUS MINISTER OF FIXAXCESEXOR LIMAXTOUR. A FAMOUS GEXERAL AXD MIXISTEROF PUBLIC WORKS.
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