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.

History is no criminal court

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

Every generation is equidistant from God.

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.

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.