| "History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk | | | | necessarily deal solely with the remote ages. |
| incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell | | | | Every chronicler of the events of the less recent times |
| me by languages and titles a catalog of the volumes | | | | who goes to the original documents for his facts, as |
| you have read. You shall make me feel what periods | | | | true historians must do during at least a part of their |
| you have lived. A man shall be the Temple of Fame. | | | | studies, is an archeologist and, conversely, every |
| He shall walk, as the poets have described that | | | | archeologist who in the course of his work states a |
| goddess, in a robe painted all over with wonderful | | | | series of historical facts, becomes an historian. |
| events and experiences....He shall be the priest of Pan, | | | | Archeology and history are inseparable and nothing is |
| and bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of | | | | more detrimental to a noble science than the attitude |
| the morning stars, and all the recorded benefits of | | | | of certain so-called archeologists who devote their |
| heaven and earth." - Emerson | | | | entire time to the study of a sequence of objects |
| The archeologist whose business it is to bring to light | | | | without proper consideration for the history which |
| by pick and spade the relics of bygone ages, is often | | | | those objects reveal. Antiquities are the relics of |
| accused of devoting his energies to work which is of | | | | human mental energy. Tey can no more be classified |
| no material profit to mankind at the present day. | | | | without reference to the minds which produced them |
| Archeology is an unapplied science and apart from its | | | | than geological specimens can be discussed without |
| connection with what is called culture, the critic is | | | | regard to the earth. There is only one thing worse than |
| inclined to judge it as a pleasant and worthless | | | | the attitude of the archeologist who does not study |
| amusement. There is nothing, the critic tells us, of | | | | the story of the periods with which he is dealing, or |
| pertinent value to be learned from the past which will | | | | construct, if only in his thoughts, living history out of the |
| be of use to the ordinary person of the present time | | | | objects discovered by him. That is the attitude of the |
| and though the h can offer acceptable information to | | | | historian who has not familiarized himself with the |
| the painter, to the theologian, to the philologist, and | | | | actual relics left by the people of whom he writes, or |
| indeed to most of the followers of the arts and | | | | has not, when possible, visited their lands. There are |
| sciences, he has nothing to give to the ordinary person. | | | | many archeologists who do not care a snap of the |
| In some directions the imputation is unanswerable and | | | | fingers for history, surprising as this may appear. There |
| when the interests of modern times clash with those | | | | are many historians who take no interest in manners |
| of the past, as, for example, in Egypt where a | | | | and customs. The influence of either is pernicious. |
| beneficial reservoir has destroyed the remains of early | | | | It is to be understood, therefore, that in using the word |
| days, there can be no question that the recording of | | | | Archeology I include History. I refer to history |
| the threatened information and the minimizing of the | | | | supplemented by the study of the arts, crafts, |
| destruction, is all that the value of the archeologist's | | | | manners, and customs of the period under |
| work entitles him to ask for. The critic, however, usually | | | | consideration. |
| overlooks some of the chief reasons that archeology | | | | As a first argument the value of archeology in |
| can give for even this much consideration, reasons | | | | providing a precedent for important occurrences may |
| which constitute its modern usefulness; and I therefore | | | | be considered. It is the structure of ancient history, and |
| propose to point out to him three or four of the many | | | | it is the voice of history which tells us that a Cretan is |
| claims which it may make upon the attention of the | | | | always a Cretan, and a Jew always a Jew. History |
| layman. | | | | may well take her place as a definite asset of |
| In the first place it is necessary to define the meaning | | | | statecraft, and the law of Precedent may be regarded |
| of the term Archeology. It is the study of the facts of | | | | as a fundamental factor in international politics. What |
| ancient history and ancient lore. The word is applied to | | | | has happened before may happen again. It is by his |
| the study of all ancient documents and objects which | | | | hand that directs our attention to the affairs and |
| may be classed as antiquities which the evidence has | | | | circumstances of olden times, and warns us of the |
| to be excavated or otherwise discovered. The age at | | | | possibilities of their recurrence. It may be said that the |
| which an object becomes an antiquity, however, is | | | | statesman who has ranged in the front of his mind the |
| quite undefined, though practically it may be reckoned | | | | proven characteristics of the people with whom he is |
| at a hundred years, and ancient history is the tale of | | | | dealing has a perquisite of the utmost importance. |
| any period which is not modern. Thus he does not | | | | |