The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 7, Ed. 1, Wednesday, July 1, 1903 Page: 3 of 24
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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE. 201
in which even non-Catholics mistrust and no longer find sati-
faction in the threadbare fairy tales and worm-eaten historical
chestnuts of yore but are now beginning like real and true
historians to study the old original documents. This is true
also with regard to Spanish-American history. To describe
Spanish domination in the New W orld as a mere system of
brutal plunder and mercenary rapine is a kind of so-called
historical appreciation the time for which is happily past. The
popular and religious passions kindled in the sixteenth century
flaming with greatest vehemence in the seventeenth and
adroitly nursed by England are out of season now and we
no longer admit that people could have achieved great things
without at leat some great and noble motives; still less that
it could have maintained its hold at such great disadvantages
as the Spaniards labored under without manifest ability
wisdom and some humanity in its directing power.
For this unearthing of the truth we are mainly indebted to
the indefatigable student scholar and master of American an-
tiquity A. F. Bandelier whose work and researches under
the auspices of the Archaelogical Institution of America and
on the Hemenway Survey has entitled him to stand first as
the documentary historian of Spanish-America and also to
rank as the most exhaustive of its explorers. Hardly less are
we indebted to Mr. Bandelier's zealous disciple and co-laborer
the intrepid and straightforward Charles F. Lummis who says:
"No student dares longer refer to Prescott or Irving or any
of the class of which they are leaders as authorities in history;
they rank today as writers of romance and nothing more."
And not only historians of this ilk have contributed to-
wards disfiguring the history of Spain on our continent but
even many Catholic writers are not free from such ideas and
prejudices. Would any honest and critical historian even
dream of accepting the passionate utterances of enthusiasts
such as Cola di Rienzi or Savonarola or to be more just even
the writings of zealous godfearing and saintly men such as
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