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Antiquaries And Antiquities.
ANTIQUARIES AND ANTIQUITIES .
THE time has long passed when the tastes and pursuits of tho antiquary Avere looked upon as a subject for ridicule ; no one now sneers at the rubber of brasses or the collector of coins ; and it is beginning to be practically understood , as it has long been admitted in theory , that archaeology is as necessary to history as chronology itself . The results of this appreciation are
to be found in the larger and juster views taken by our historians , in the attention paid to the condition of the people in ages past , in the more careful conservation of antiquities , in the improvement of art and architecture , and in the general light thrown at once upon ethnology and literature . The present condition of areliEeology as a scienceand the
, claims of those Avho are chiefly engaged in its cultivation , cannot but be looked upon as well deserving our attention ; and we piupose in the few folloAving pages to lay briefly before the reader the results of some years' careful investigation . And first of archceology as a science ; branching out into innumerable ramifications , it offers a Avide and varied field for research , and
it has attracted into that field not a few of the most eminently gifted men of our clay . Heraldry , not regarded as a means of making an idle display for the " nouveau riclie , " and of allying him by some pretentious blazon Avith the illustrious of ages past , but as the means of solving many curious historical problems , of hunting out many otherAvise hidden deeds , and of tracing many important genealogies—heraldry has its worthy students , men who not in vain occupy themselves Avith its mysteries and reveal its treasures .
Numismatics , in itself a science of no mean importance , becomes still more interesting Avhen we see in it the annals of dark ages , Avhen we find ourselves able to ansAver many a question of historical moment simply by the evidence afforded by the coins of the period . The history of the arts of life is to be read in the implements
of war , of husbandry , and household use , Avhich are UOAV recovered from the long-buried Nineveh , UOAV laid before us from the mummy-pits of Egypt , now disinterred from Pompeii ancl Herculaneum , and noAv exhibited as having been rescued from tlie noAvly-opened barrow of the Saxon or Northman . Soyer could not have told us with so much effect Avhat the inhabitants of tlie
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Antiquaries And Antiquities.
ANTIQUARIES AND ANTIQUITIES .
THE time has long passed when the tastes and pursuits of tho antiquary Avere looked upon as a subject for ridicule ; no one now sneers at the rubber of brasses or the collector of coins ; and it is beginning to be practically understood , as it has long been admitted in theory , that archaeology is as necessary to history as chronology itself . The results of this appreciation are
to be found in the larger and juster views taken by our historians , in the attention paid to the condition of the people in ages past , in the more careful conservation of antiquities , in the improvement of art and architecture , and in the general light thrown at once upon ethnology and literature . The present condition of areliEeology as a scienceand the
, claims of those Avho are chiefly engaged in its cultivation , cannot but be looked upon as well deserving our attention ; and we piupose in the few folloAving pages to lay briefly before the reader the results of some years' careful investigation . And first of archceology as a science ; branching out into innumerable ramifications , it offers a Avide and varied field for research , and
it has attracted into that field not a few of the most eminently gifted men of our clay . Heraldry , not regarded as a means of making an idle display for the " nouveau riclie , " and of allying him by some pretentious blazon Avith the illustrious of ages past , but as the means of solving many curious historical problems , of hunting out many otherAvise hidden deeds , and of tracing many important genealogies—heraldry has its worthy students , men who not in vain occupy themselves Avith its mysteries and reveal its treasures .
Numismatics , in itself a science of no mean importance , becomes still more interesting Avhen we see in it the annals of dark ages , Avhen we find ourselves able to ansAver many a question of historical moment simply by the evidence afforded by the coins of the period . The history of the arts of life is to be read in the implements
of war , of husbandry , and household use , Avhich are UOAV recovered from the long-buried Nineveh , UOAV laid before us from the mummy-pits of Egypt , now disinterred from Pompeii ancl Herculaneum , and noAv exhibited as having been rescued from tlie noAvly-opened barrow of the Saxon or Northman . Soyer could not have told us with so much effect Avhat the inhabitants of tlie