2004: Their political and religious centers included great acropoli of massed palaces, temples, stone tombs, and ballcourts. — Arthur Demarest, Ancient Maya (Cambridge 2004, p. 1)

The second reason for the disappearance of legitimate shoot wrestling was that it allowed promoters to hold all of the power in the business.

Madame d'Houdetot for the next three or four months, which were among the most bitter in Rousseau's life, for then the bitterness which became chronic was new and therefore harder to be borne, wrote him the wisest, most affectionate, and most considerate letters that a sincere and sensible woman ever wrote to the most petulant, suspicious, perverse, and irrestrainable of men.

This counter-influence is so much more conclusive[…] because it is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation.