Note 969 — Chapter III

Bandelier (“Art of War, etc.,” in Peabody Mus. Rept. x. 113) again says of De Pauw’s Recherches philosophiques sur les Américaines, that it is “a very injudicious book, which by its extravagance and audacity created a great deal of harm. It permitted Clavigero to attack even Robertson, because the latter had also applied sound criticism to the study of American aboriginal history, and by artfully placing both as upon the same platform, to counteract much of the good effects of Robertson’s work.”