worthy to be adopted. He was ready to make the same avowal in the
present day which Mr. Pitt had made in 1792.--CANNING, June 1, 1827.
_Parliamentary Review_, 1828, 71. American history knows but one
avenue of success in American legislation, freedom from ancient
prejudice. The best lawgivers in our colonies first became as little
children.--BANCROFT, _History of the United States_, i. 494.--Every
American, from Jefferson and Gallatin down to the poorest squatter,
seemed to nourish an idea that he was doing what he could to overthrow
the tyranny which the past had fastened on the human mind.--ADAMS,
_History of the United States_, i. 175.

[13] The greatest changes of which we have had experience as
yet are due to our increasing knowledge of history and nature. They
have been produced by a few minds appearing in three or four favoured
nations, in comparatively a short period of time. May we be allowed to
imagine the minds of men everywhere working together during many ages
for the completion of our knowledge? May not the increase of knowledge
transfigure the world?--JOWETT, _Plato_, i. 414. Nothing, I believe,
is so likely to beget in us a spirit of enlightened liberality, of
Christian forbearance, of large-hearted moderation, as the careful study
of the history of doctrine and the history of interpretation.--PEROWNE,
_Psalms_, i. p. xxxi.

[14] Ce n'est guere avant la seconde moitie du XVIIe siecle
qu'il devint impossible de soutenir l'authenticite des fausses
decretales, des Constitutions apostoliques, des Recognitions
Clementines, du faux Ignace, du pseudo-Dionys, et de l'immense fatras
d'oeuvres anonymes ou pseudonymes qui grossissait souvent du tiers
ou de la moitie l'heritage litteraire des auteurs les plus
considerables.--DUCHESNE, _Temoins anteniceens de la Trinite_, 1883,
36.

[15] A man who does not know what has been thought by those
who have gone before him is sure to set an undue value upon his own
ideas.--M. PATTISON, _Memoirs_, 78.

[16] Travailler a discerner, dans cette discipline, le solide
d'avec le frivole, le vrai d'avec le vraisemblable, la science d'avec
l'opinion, ce qui forme le jugement d'avec ce qui ne fait que charger
la memoire.--LAMY, _Connoissance de soi-meme_, v. 459.

[17] All our hopes of the future depend on a sound
understanding of the past.--HARRISON, _The Meaning of History_, 6.

[18] The real history of mankind is that of the slow advance
of resolved deed following laboriou