I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for br myself, and for these chants--and now I have found it; br It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither br accept nor reject;) br It is no more in the legends than in all else; br It is in the present--it is this earth to-day; br It is in Democracy--(the purport and aim of all the past;) br It is the life of one man or one woman to-day--the average man of br to-day; br It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts; br It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, br politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of br nations, br All for the average man of to-day.