... gives the readers of the journal the sort of words and the sort of thoughts they are used to so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age ... which the child in blood possesses of becoming one day the head of a family himself. The flocks and herds of the children are the flocks and herds of the father, and the possessions of the parent, ... telling object-lesson to the understanding of what he read. Just as in every country of Europe in 1793 there were two factions, one of the old-world aristocracy, and the other of the incoming...