... the discoveries, rich and romantic and utterly unexpected as they were, have given the North-West a world-wide advertisement of inestimable value… - E. B. Osborn

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... the discoveries, rich and romantic and utterly unexpected as they were, have given the North-West a world-wide advertisement of inestimable value. And this is an age of advertisement.
Public opinion about such discoveries always passes through two stages—a period of universal credulity, followed by a period of universal incredulity.

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About E. B. Osborn

(1867–1938) was a British journalist, author and editor. He is perhaps best known as the editor of , an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917.

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Alternative Names: Edward Osborn Edward Bolland Osborn
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