IN A LETTER TO MR. HUNTER, AUTHOR OF THE TRACT ENTITLED "POPE:
HIS DESCENT AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS."
It is one of the most pleasing offices of the genealogist to trace
the descent and to show the alliances of GENIUS.
HUNTER'S _South Yorkshire_, vol. ii. p. 297.
LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,
36, SOHO SQUARE.
M.DCCC.LVIII.
"Let any one bethink him how impressive the smallest historical fact may
become, as contrasted with the grandest fictitious event;--what an
incalculable force lies for us in this consideration;--the thing which I
here hold imaged in my mind did actually occur; was, in very truth, an
element in the system of the All whereof I too form part; had therefore,
and has, through all time, an authentic being; is not a dream, but a
reality!"--CARLYLE'S _Essays_, vol. iii. p. 43.