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Excerpt from Cumorah Revisited: Or the Book of Mormon and the Claims of the Mormons
It was while living at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in the year 1900, that I conceived the idea of making a special study of the Book of Mormon from this viewpoint for the purpose of putting out a small pamphlet on the subject. As I entered deeper and deeper into the study, the work grew until it reached its present proportions, and as dis crepancy after discrepancy between the claims of the Book of Mormon and the facts of science were dis covered, I became more and more surprised that this ground had not been more thoroughly worked by the anti-mormon polemic before, while I became more and more convinced that in the data acquired by archaeolog ical and ethnological research the opponent of this sys tem has a mass of evidence which, if rightly used, will completely demolish the claim of the historical credibility of the Book of Mormon.
For the last half century, at least, the Mormons have'put out works on American archaeology, but most of these have been mere collations of passages from scientific writers, taken here and there without a con sideration of the context and often so arranged as to'
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