James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

On The Human Imagination Events Produce The Effects Of Time. Thus He Who Has Travelled Far And Seen Much Is Apt To Fancy That He Has Lived Long; And The History That Most Abounds In Important Incidents Soonest Assumes The Aspect Of Antiquity. In No Other Way Can We Account For The Venerable Air That Is Already Gathering Around American Annals. When The Mind Reverts To The Earliest Days Of Colonial History, The Period Seems Remote And Obscure, The Thousand Changes That Thicken Along The Links Of Recollections, Throwing Back The Origin Of The Nation To A Day So Distant As Seemingly To Reach The Mists Of Time; And Yet Four Lives Of Ordinary Duration Would Suffice To Transmit, From Mouth To Mouth, In The Form Of Tradition, All That Civilized Man Has Achieved Within The Limits Of The Republic ... Thus, What Seems Venerable By An Accumulation Of Changes Is Reduced To Familiarity When We Come Seriously To Consider It Solely In Connection With Time.

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