20 HISTORICAL SCIENCE 



We must not suffer ourselves to fall dull and pedantic, must not lose 

 our visions or cease to speak the large words of inspiration and guid- 

 ance. It were a shame upon us to drop from the ranks of those who 

 walk at the van and sink into the ranks of those who only follow 

 after, to pick up the scattered traces of the marching host as things 

 merely to pore upon and keep. We cannot do this. We will return 

 to our traditions and compel our fellow historians of literature to 

 write of us as of those who were masters of a great art. 



