Excerpt from Charles Sumner
In attempting to write a life of Charles Sumner I was met at the outset with the practical difficulty which specially confronts those who would write of a time only fast passed. Should I assume a knowledge of recent history on the part of the reader, or should I assume his ignorance of those events which made the background of Summer"s life; in other words, should I write for those who already knew more than I could hope to know of those events, or for the generation that now is, which as a matter of that knows nothing of a time too far away for personal knowledge and too near for written history? Upon consideration, it seemed better to so write the story of this man"s life that it should be a whole story, and that the reader need not look elsewhere to find any fact essential to comprehension of the situation.
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