Page 188 - Family History

Letters, Postcards, Clippings

of a great city, and down into the bustling
streets, the impressions seemed almost
irresistible that he was looking at some relic
of antiquity – the same impression that
confronts one in gazing at Egyptian
mummies in a museum. The historic interest
that applies to one seemed to throw a halo of
curiosity about the other. On the one hand
was the life, activity and motion of a
glowing present, on the other sat the
representative, almost the reality of a past
age.

Reference: N#02

188