A definite and full knowledge of men and generations of men, such as is distinctive of themselves, quickly fades away. They had a real importance in their day; they were the matters of fact, and their decisions and acts gave its character to the society of their day; but their day was brief, and after death, their remembrance perishes from the earth, and they have no name in the streets.

This tendency to oblivion is common to traditional reports, and in a measure to official Records. The former soon become generalized, and confused; and the latter get mutilated. And as each is requisite to explain and illustrate the other, the true characteristics of individual men and events thus become oh soured and lost.

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