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Excerpt from The Deciding Voice of the Monuments in Biblical Criticism I will not indulge myself by yielding to the very insidious temptation to say in the preface what one has forgotten to say in the book, but will keep strictly to the delightful task of expressing my gratitude to those who have helped me. Here I am so embarrassed that I am tempted to stop short and say no more. Everyone who writes anything in these days of encyclopaedic information, when the world is full of experts on every kind of subject, is of necessity indebted to so many for help that the preface, to do full justice to all, is in danger of becoming as big as the book that follows. Of no other two related subjects is this more true than of Archaeology and Criticism. The literature of both fields of research is so voluminous that everyone must avail himself of the guidance given by specialists in many different departments. That I have done so in this case every scholar will know without being told here. I only wish to express my great gratitude for that privilege, without which a work of this kind would not be possible in a whole lifetime. There is something else for which I am indebted; that spirit of appreciation which disputants only ac quire through a wholesome respect for their opponents for whose wisdom and learning and candor they have the most profound regard. The blessed confraternity of seekers after truth, has, I feel, by its precious fellow ship done much for the spirit of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.