Bearing in mind that 'that which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before,' significant events of the past must be known, to the end that we intelligently comprehend the present, and are enabled, even in scant measure, to forecast the future.
Stevenson emphasizes the importance of historical knowledge for understanding the present and predicting the future.
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The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.
To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.
And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.
We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.