Archaeological History of Ohio

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Excerpt from Archaeological History of Ohio: The Mound Builders and Later IndiansBut there have always been some who refused to accept the prevailing superstitions. They have preferred to examine the material from which the ideas are derived. For nearly a century a few delvers into the dust-heaps of vanished races have dug in a methodical instead of a desultory manner, have reported what they observed instead of what unfinished excava tions may have led them to infer. Their enthusiasm, necessary for the prosecution of such work, has been subordinate to com mon sense, their deductions are based upon reason and reasons, and not upon imagination. The wide-spread mistakes and fal lacies regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of the United States, need never have come into existence, had due regard been paid to the published material of men who were not content to ac cept superficial indications as final proof. But. Unfortunately, such publications were few in number, concise 311 style, limited in extent, and worse than all, buried in Proceedings, and Transactions, and Reports, of institutions, societies, and associations, and consequently as inaccessible to the public at large as if they had never been issued.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.