An American Hero

ence, doubtful interpretation (there for example, that “white settlers oceupied the Indians.” Haste undoubtedly accounts for a number of errors in detail and for the author’s habitual failure to distinguish between historical fact, probable inferis no direct evidence whatsoever that Alexander the Great held “the lofty ideal of the brotherhood of all mankind,” and sheer speculation (e.g., that the Hyperboreans of Greek myth were really the Chinese).

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