Nor can we rule out the possibility that indigenous Mexican ideas on the subject entered wider streams of European political thought that gathered force only in the days of Rousseau, whose State of Nature maps with alarming fidelity on to Motolinía’s account of the Chichimec, right down to the ‘primitive hut dwellings’ in which they were supposed to have lived. Perhaps some of the seeds of our own evolutionary story about how it all began with simple, egalitarian hunter-gatherers were sown right there, in the imaginations of city-dwelling Amerindians.
Why overreach with this dumb speculation. THERE IS ZERO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE, OR EVEN THE MOST GOSSAMER THIN SHREDS OF WRITING LINKING THESE THINGS! This is shoddy conjecture by an historian.
