A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.


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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
To write is a humiliation.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ...
EDWARD BLISHEN
By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
EDWARD YOUNG
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER