History of New Zealand, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Rusden, George William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332740278 ISBN 13 : 9781332740277

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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It is impossible to study the facts connected with the Maori race without being deeply interested in their fortunes. With whatever motive any one might undertake to write a history of the English occupation of New Zealand, he is no sooner confronted by the facts with regard to the Maoris their polity, their laws, their sagacity, their cannibal rites, their blood-thirstiness, their heroism, their generosity, and their eloquence than he finds that amongst them, and not amongst the invaders of their country, will be found the chief and most lasting interest of his work. He will find also that many of the hundreds of volumes written about New Zealand transmit statements originally put forward by those who had an interest in deception in order to conceal their own misdoings. But, though the task may be laborious, he will find also, by diligent search amongst authentic records, ample proof of the real facts, and of the methods by which they have been obscured or misrepresented. If, by repetition, a man may, as Shakspeare tells us, make such a sinner of his memory as to credit his own lie, how much more easily may the public embrace an error which is unwittingly propagated by those who copy in one work what they find printed in another! Fortunate is it that there have been always upright Englishmen on the spot to protest against wrong-doing.

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1332740278
• ISBN 13: 9781332740277
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 574