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William H. Prescott

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The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.


William H. Prescott, “Chateaubriand’s English Literature” (1839), p. 245.

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