IMPERFECT HISTORY
DUMBNESS OF MODERN DATE. Professor George Gordon, lecturing to the English Association at the London School of Economics, asked why people were satisfied that our recorded history began with Julius Caer.ar. The world was grown up when Caesar landed; empires had risen and declined. This dumbness was comparatively modern. The schoolboy a few centuries ajjo learned that the first Britons were Trojans; that their leader, Brutus, was a prince of the house of Priam, a grandson of Aeneas. At the beginning of the 17th century suspicion fell on the British Trojans, and they gradually disappeared from history as a fabulous, fraudulent, discredited people. Archaeology now ruled in place of Brutus, but lie deeply regretted that tn’o such good things should ever have i clashed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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126IMPERFECT HISTORY New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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