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Title: An Ethnologist's View of History
An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey
Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896

Author: Daniel G. Brinton

Release Date: July 31, 2009 [EBook #29554]

Language: English

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AN

ETHNOLOGIST'S VIEW OF HISTORY.

AN ADDRESS
BEFORE THE
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
AT
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, JANUARY 28, 1896.

BY

DANIEL G. BRINTON, A. M., M. D., LL. D., D. Sc.

PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA AND OF GENERAL ETHNOLOGY AT THE
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.
1896.

An Ethnologist's View of History.

MR. PRESIDENT:

* * * * *

The intelligent thought of the world is ever advancing to a fuller
appreciation of the worth of the past to the present and the future.
Never before have associations, societies and journals devoted to
historical studies been so numerous. All times and tribes are searched
for memorials; the remote corners of modern, medieval and ancient
periods are brought under scrutiny; and going beyond these again, the
semi-historic eras of tradition and the nebulous gleams from
pre-historic milleniums[TN-1] are diligently scanned, that their
uncertain story may be prefaced to that register