Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.


A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (ed. 1873)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture ...

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture ...

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture ...

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture ...