Every generation is equidistant from God.
History is no criminal court
Calvin was virtually the founder of America.
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.