“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age ... has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.”--EMERSON. “To philosophise on mankind exact observation is not sufficient.... Knowledge of the present must be supplemented from the history of the past.”--TAINE.…
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