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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 71: August 19, 1909
This outline of the extent of public knowledge respecting the matter in hand is not submitted as complete but it serves to show that at the time Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon the world knew but little about ancient America. Now, for the sake of the argument let us admit that Del Rio's reports, Fuentes accounts and a wagon load of communications from travelers, all descriptive of what they saw of the ruins in question, and with them misleading, immature conjectures by the score, were in possession of the translator of the Book of Mormon when he carried out his work, how does that gratuity afiect the claim that he was inspired of God for its accomplishment? Here we again remind the reader of the vast difference that must be recognized between the accounts that people give of certain ruins, etc., that they have seen, and a detailed history. But, replies the objector, are not men now almost constantly bringing to light the history of ancient peoples through an interpretation of the ruins and relics they have left behind themselves? The writing of history by such aids does not involve the inspiration of God at all. Before grant ing the virtue of these and similar propositions, it is purposed to inquire who is doing such work, and to what extent, and under what conditions?
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