Tell It in Gath (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Innocently accepted and credulously followed by historians and their readers, fashion has left us a rich and varied heritage of false record and absurd opinion. It is, indeed, the visible, yet unregarded source of what an English essayist has humorously named the Mississippi of falsehood called his tory; and as the current of the mighty river is clouded by the muddy waters of a huge confluent, so has history become but a turbid flood, in whose dreary course truth and fact are swallowed or swept along to voiceless oblivion wherever the stream of false tradition, Missouri-like, pours in to swell its volume and obliterate its landmarks.

The prevalence of such an influence renders difficult, if not impossible, any true understanding either of contemporary events and character, or of the past of which these are the out come. In dress, manners, and the like, a dominating fashion may clearly betoken declining intelligence, servility of spirit, deterioration of character. In historical tradition and belief it too frequently presents hidden obstructions to intelligent te search and certain knowledge; and thus remains a fertile source of unfortunate and mischievous misunderstanding, pitiful igno rance, grotesque confusion, and absurd bigotry. Invariably is this the case where history has been recorded in a fashion set and dictated by the blind spirit of clique or clan, which ever delights to decry worth and genius, while exaltin'g noisy mediocrities and canting hypocrites.

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