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Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its... →
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been... →
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
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