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To a Historian.

Part of the cluster INSCRIPTIONS.

TO A HISTORIAN.

YOU who celebrate bygones! Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the  
 races—the life that has exhibited itself; Who have treated of man as the creature of politics,  
 aggregates, rulers and priests; I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is  
 in himself, in his own rights, Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited  
 itself, (the great pride of man in himself;) Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future.

Part of the cluster INSCRIPTIONS.

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