Propaganda in History

Gardiner Tyler Lyon

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But recent writers do not even admit the reservation of Hutch inson of a prior though vanishing Jamestown. That ancient settle ment, with all that it stands for, is actually to be snubbed out of recognition, and the claim is now boldly advanced that the Ply mouth settlement was the first colony and all Americans the virtual output of that plantation. Jamestown is not to be allowed even a share in the upbuilding of America. Can anything be more astonishing, and where is the New England conscience that it does not revolt against this perversion of the truth?

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243686261
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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D uring the we he rd gre t de l of prop g nd the word used gen r lly in sense there re lly no hing h rmful in the word itself It signifies only me ns of publicity which when plied p roperly le itim tely se es very good purpose The Germ ns pplied it improperly They ent to this country lli ons of doll rs to buy up newsp pers newsp er men buse the llies m ke p l t ble their own conduct too often brut l in the extreme P rop g nd is form of dvertisement it i s only when dvertisements resorted to for the pur ose ding errone us concep ions th t they to condemned dvert sements time p ernicious A fe tu e esp p opul r in thi country is prop g nd plied to history This consists in using striking ch r cters event of the p st to give imp rt nce to present m tters As long the truth is tol d much good must result for the p st cont ins v st rchives of xperience from w ich v lu ble inform tion m y be The reverse h p ens when to give p ro inen e p rtie ends histor c m tter is exploited the expense of truth These thoughts suggested by wh t is so often re d in the newsp pers perio dic ls the North even in h ve more serious ch r cte r sheer dint of sse tion t ken up published if by concerted rr ngement cert in things given ch r cter th t never di d belong to them The ide seems to be with m ny who ctive in m tter th t the re l tr th m k ffere ce rovided the mul es no di itude b e got ccept cert in view This is the very essence of Germ n s o much fe red condemned during the Wo rld But this is not true of for there some who ppe r to be swept l ng by for which they powerless to resist Let me cite so e of the c ses which h ve b een m de the sub of this kind of exploit tion There is m nifest s osition to pl ce Plymouth before J mesto n It is goes b c hundredfifty ye rs to the histori n Hutc inson who sserted his hi story of M ss chusetts th t Virgini colony virtu lly f iled