A Study in Colonial History (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Study in Colonial History Seeing, then, that the historians have so little faita in what is written, what is the student to do 2 Is there none of them above reproach 2 Not one whom we can undoubt ingly accept as our teacher and master? Let us not fear to scan the merits of those who have so freely judged each other, judging them always in the love of truth, and in charity. Hawks is the latest, and in some respects, the best of them. But even he must be studied and oriti cized, not accepted through faith. And, with a full sense of how much it becomes a student to speak with modesty and reserve of the labors of learned men, I dare venture the belief that, when the generation which has personally known and admired that historian shall have passed away, those who are careful to examine for themselves will find that, while he is always dogmatical in manner, he is not always either temperate in language, or just in judgment and that he is by no means clear Of the same faults of carelessness and inaccuracy which he so vehemently con demus in his predecessors. That this opinion is not haz arded hastily and without warrant may be easily Shown by a few examples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.