Charles Sumner: “It is easy to understand that the youth of Antiquity,--let me say, too, the youth of later ages,--nay, of our own day…”

“It is easy to understand that the youth of Antiquity,--let me say, too, the youth of later ages,--nay, of our own day, in our own schools and colleges,--nurtured by this literature, should learn to neglect the Future, and rather regard the Past.”