Columbus and His Predecessors

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Excerpt from Columbus and His Predecessors: A Study in the Beginnings of American History Although the approved method whereby the present-day historian gleans the facts of his narrative is by research among original documents and contemporary papers and by collating these in the most critical manner, this method seems to have been little followed in the history of the discovery of America. Strange as it may seem, the beginnings of the history of the New World remain hidden in the dusk of uncertainty. At best we have come only into the twilight of knowledge regarding even the central figure of this period, for it cannot be said that the full and accurate story has yet been told of the man himself who is the accepted discoverer of the Western hemisphere. In view of our honest pride in our country's standing among the nations, it is far from flattering that we should have to make such an admission at this late date. Viewed from another angle, however, one may find that our neglect in this regard is partly extenuated by the distracting conditions which sit upon a country during the period of its formative and maturing process. 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.