American Society Is A Sort Of Flat,

My Own Conclusion Is That History Is Simply Social Development Along The Lines Of Weakest Resistance, And That In Most Cases The Line Of Weakest Resistance Is Found As Unconsciously By Society As By Water.

People Here Are Quite Struck Aback At Sunday's News Of The Capture Of New Orleans. It Took Them Three Days To Make Up Their Minds To Believe It. The Division Of American Had Become An Idea So Fixed That They Had About Shut Out All The Avenues To The Reception Of Any Other.

No Historian Can Take Part With--or Against--the Forces He Has To Study. To Him Even The Extinction Of The Human Race Should Merely Be A Fact To Be Grouped With Other Vital Statistics.

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Had Always Been Tragic.

Of All Studies, The One He Would Rather Have Avoided Was That Of His Own Mind. He Knew No Tragedy So Heartrending As Introspection.