The Ruins in Ancient America (and by that term we mean _anterior_ to the re-discovery by Columbus) do indeed "stand alone:"--a "new order" to the modern eye they may be--but over _two thousand years ago_, the "order" might have been termed the _Egypto-Tyrian_:--and reason, research, and analogies of Religious and National Customs, will prove that the name now given to this newly-discovered _ancient_ order is correct;--and that the moderns may not only repeat the term, but, even aid the Science of Architecture, by the application of the rules and principles of utility and solidity, now discovered in the Western Hemisphere! Our review of his "conclusions" has advanced sufficiently far for our purpose; for it must be evident that a complete refutation of his deductions has been given, and founded upon his own descriptions, and illustrations,--apart from Baron Humboldt's and Waldeck's works, or any humble commentaries of our own. It will naturally be asked--"What could have been the _motive_ of such contradiction, and against himself?" A hidden motive has more than once been hinted at in the foregoing pages. O! love of Country! how inherent is thy power in the human mind!--but, never before was it exerted to the same extent as by our favourite Traveller, as evinced in the motive for rejecting all Nations--_except his own_, as claimants for the builders of Copan, and her muralled companions of the Western Continent. Talk of the Dacii, and the Curtius, impaling themselves upon the spears of the enemy, or plunging into a gulph to close it,--why, our devoted Traveller does more than all this--for he _survives_ the shock and fall! The devotional lines _unfolding_ the long concealed _motive_ for rejecting all other Nations, must not be withheld, he writes-- "I invite to this subject the special attention of those familiar with the Arts of other countries;--for, unless I am wrong, we have a _conclusion_ far more _interesting and wonderful_ than that of connecting the builders of these cities with the Egyptians, or _any other people_. _It is the Spectacle of_ A PEOPLE _skilled in Architecture, Sculpture, and Drawing, and beyond doubt, other more perishable arts; and possessing the cultivation and refinement attendant upon these_,--NOT DERIVED FROM THE OLD WORLD, _but_ ORIGINATING AND GROWING _up here_, [America] _without models or masters,--having a distinct, separate, independent existence_:--LIKE THE PLANTS AND FRUITS OF THE SOIL--INDIGENOUS!" Temples and Pyramids defend your rights! Pericles and Phidias protect the Arts!--for in the Western Continent, without "models or masters,"--Edifices, Architects, and Sculptors, as "plants and fruit"--or like-- "Foul deeds _will rise_, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes!"