evolution_,
21.

[26] N'attendez donc pas les lecons de l'experience; elles
coutent trop cher aux nations.--O. BARROT, _Memoires_, ii. 435. Il y a
des lecons dans tous les temps, pour tous les temps; et celles qu'on
emprunte a des ennemis ne sont pas les moins precieuses.--LANFREY,
_Napoleon_, v. p. ii. Old facts may always be fresh, and may give out
a fresh meaning for each generation.--MAURICE, _Lectures_, 62. The
object is to lead the student to attend to them; to make him take
interest in history not as a mere narrative, but as a chain of causes
and effects still unwinding itself before our eyes, and full of
momentous consequences to himself and his descendants--an unremitting
conflict between good and evil powers, of which every act done by any
one of us, insignificant as we are, forms one of the incidents; a
conflict in which even the smallest of us cannot escape from taking
part, in which whoever does not help the right side is helping the
wrong.--MILL, _Inaugural Address_, 59.

[27] I hold that the degree in which Poets dwell in sympathy
with the Past, marks exactly the degree of their poetical
faculty.--WORDSWORTH in C. FOX, _Memoirs_, June, 1842. In all
political, all social, all human questions whatever, history is the
main resource of the inquirer.--HARRISON, _Meaning of History_, 15.
There are no truths which more readily gain the assent of mankind, or
are more firmly retained by them, than those of an historical nature,
depending upon the testimony of others.--PRIESTLEY, _Letters to French
Philosophers_, 9. Improvement consists in bringing our opinions into
nearer agreement with facts; and we shall not be likely to do this
while we look at facts only through glasses coloured by those very
opinions.--MILL, _Inaugural Address_, 25.

[28] He who has learnt to understand the true character and
tendency of many succeeding ages is not likely to go very far wrong in
estimating his own.--LECKY, _Value of History_, 21. C'est a l'histoire
qu'il faut se prendre, c'est le fait que nous devons interroger, quand
l'idee vacille et fuit a nos yeux.--MICHELET, _Disc. d'Ouverture_,
263. C'est la loi des faits telle qu'elle se manifeste dans leur
succession. C'est la regle de conduite donnee par la nature humaine et
indiquee par l'histoire. C'est la logique, mais cette logique qui ne
fait qu'un avec l'enchainement des choses. C'est l'enseignement de
l'experience.--SCHERER, _Melanges_, 558. Wer seine Vergangenheit nicht