Take the newspaper for what it is, a hasty gatherer of facts, a hurried commentator on the same, and it may well constitute a part of historical evidence.
It is somewhat curious that such should be the case, for newspapers satisfy so many canons of historical evidence.
He had none of the wholesome skepticism which we deem necessary in the weighing of historical evidence; on the contrary, he is frequently accused of credulity.
But if we approach the problem from the ethnologist's side we cannot rest satisfied with an attitude of scepticism owing to the absence of historical evidence.
In the case of the Greek Heroic Age we have unfortunately to depend upon inferences, since no historical evidence is obtainable.
This brings us back nearly to times when, fortunately, historical evidence is available once more, namely from the Egyptian monuments.
A further rule of the new lexicography, accordingly, is that quotations should be used, primarily, as historical evidence, and that the history of words and meanings should be exhibited by means of them.
So in the absence of historical evidence of the genetic relationship of the Serian and the Yuman words denoting “earth”, it seems best to regard this literal accordance as fortuitous rather than real or genetic.
But before I enter on my immediate subject, it will be necessary to lay down the leading principles of historical evidence, and to estimate the value of tradition as a testimony to historical facts.
First: The positions taken by unbelievers are theories, which rest on the smallest basis of historical evidence.
In all other respects I have viewed the question before me as exclusively one of historical evidence.
He had not laid down for himself a previous rule for determining what should be admitted as historical evidence, or the rules he had prescribed for himself were of an uncertain, fluctuating character.
But want of uniformity in the power of the instruments employed, different conditions of our atmosphere, and other optical relations, render a part of the results invalid as historical evidence.
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