20 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts^ and Letters. 



Ms teachability, and by his ability to conceive and to carry out 

 far-reaching purposes, and finally the influence of a higher power 

 upon the whole race. History is not a fortuitous sequence of 

 events. It is subject to law, and is the working out of a plan in 

 the Divine mind. 



Says BuDsen, "To write the history of a nation is to recom- 

 pose a can'o in that great epic or dramatic poem, of which God 

 rs the poet, man the hero, and the historian the prophetical 

 interpreter." 



