Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 15: A Monthly Magazine; May, 1901
Only in a later, in the main a much later, time is the art of writing history, learned through the practice of writing national histories, applied to other spheres of human life, whence we have memoirs and the histories Of families. But considerable sections of the people have never risen to the appreciation of history proper.
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