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Two excellent histories of the period of discovery are O. F. Peschel, Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen , and Sophus Ruge, Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen . More recent works are S. Gunther, Das Zeitalter der Entdeckungen , and Carlo Errera, L'Epoca delle Grandi Scoperti Geografiche .
WASHINGTON IRVING: Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. H. HALLAM: Introduction to the Literature of Europe. 1839. WM. PRESCOTT: Conquest of Mexico; History of Ferdinand and Isabella. SIR A. HELPS: The Spanish Conquest in America. 1867. M. PASCAL D'AVEZAC: Les Décades de Pierre Martyr, etc. OSCAR PESCHEL: Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckung. 1858.
Muñoz first suggested it in 1793; but the arguments in its favour were first spread out by Captain Becher of the royal navy in 1856, and he seems to have induced Oscar Peschel in 1858 to adopt the same views in his history of the range of modern discovery.
Even Peschel, who will not be suspected of any bias toward Christianity, has said on this subject: "This dark side of the life of uncivilized nations has induced barbarous and inhuman settlers in transoceanic regions to assume as their own a right to cultivate as their own the inheritance of the aborigines, and to extol the murder of races as a triumph of civilization.
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