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[Kelvin <ove...@fo...>]

Uited for monographs. We have but to compare a few pages in each of the
two excellent works now in our hands, to see how men of the highest
ability, of rigid candor, and scrupulous fidelity in the use of the same
materials, while spreading the same facts before their readers, may tell
different tales, varying to the whole extent of the diversity in their
respective judgments and moralizings. We can easily illustrate this
assertion from the pages before us. Though Dr. Palfrey stops more than a
half-century short of the date to which Mr. Arnold carries us, the
former indicates exactly how and where he will be at issue with the
latter, even to the end of the story common to both of them. So strong
and clear is Dr. Palfrey's avowal of fealty to the honorable and
unsullied fame of the founders of Massachusetts, that he will not be
likely, on any later page, to qualify what he has already written. It
happens, too, that the points in which any two of our historians would
be most disposed to part in judgment lie within the space and the years
common to both these writers. We can but indicate, in a very brief way,
some of the more salient divergences between them, and we must preface
the specification by acknowledging again the high integrity of both. Dr.
Palfrey writes, unmistakably, as a man proud of his Massachusetts
lineage. He honors the men whose enterprise, constancy, persistency, and
wise skill in laying foundations have, in his view, approved their
methods and justified them, even where they are most exposed to a severe
judgment. He wishes to tell their story as they would wish to have it
told. They st