Excerpt from Side Lights on English History: Being Extracts From Letters, Papers, and Diaries of the Past Three Centuries

All hail to the new spirit that is permeating the methods of teaching and studying of history, in New England especially, hut also as far as the influence of the thousand-membered American Historical Society extends. It is the veritable spirit of the Renaissance, the spirit that made those fifteenth century scholars hunt for manuscripts, and that caused Luther to found his theological teachings on the actual text of the Bible. Here was a cloud of witnesses capable of relating their own experiences as men to men and needing no veil of priestly mystery.

To those who have followed the movement the rapid increase of so-called source-books of history forms a very interesting phenomenon.

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