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what has happened。 This union of the two meanings we must regard as of a higher order than mere

outward accident; we must suppose historical narrations to have appeared contemporaneously

with historical deeds and events。 It is an internal vital principle mon to both that produces them

synchronously。 Family memorials; patriarchal traditions; have an interest confined to the family and

the clan。 The uniform course of events which such a condition implies; is no subject of serious

remembrance; though distinct transactions or turns of fortune; may rouse Mnemosyne to form

conceptions of them; — in the same way as love and the religious emotions provoke imagination to

give shape to a previously formless impulse。 But it is the State which first presents subject…matter

that is not only adapted to the prose of History; but involves the production of such history in the

very progress of its own being。 Instead of merely subjective mandates on the part of government;

— sufficing for the needs of the moment; — a munity that is acquiring a stable existence; and

exalting itself into a State; requires formal mands and laws — prehensive and universally

binding prescriptions; and thus produces a record as well as an interest concerned with intelligent;

definite — and; in their results — lasting transactions and occurrences; on which Mnemosyne; for

the behoof of the perennial object of the form

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