Show there were two Macau lays then it Is that we become aware that there were two Macau lays macaulay the artist with an exquisite gitt gift tur telling a story tilling filling nis pages with little ign vignettes ettes it Is 18 impossible to torget filial these with an inimitable art upon the ol of a narrative that did not need the ornament they gave it so strong and large and adequate was it and macauley the whig subtly turning narrative into argument and making history the vindication of 01 a party the mighty narrative is a great engine of proof it Is not told for its own sake it is evidence summed up ira in order to lustily a judgment we detect the tone of the advocate and though it if we are just we must deem him bonest we cannot deem him safe bate tile the great storyteller story teller Is discredited and willingly we reject the guide who tikes it upon himself to dete determine for us what we shall see that we feel sure cannot be true which makes of so complex a history so simple a thesis for the judgment there Is art here but it Is the art of special pleading misleading even to the reader on the writing of history by prof woodlow wilson in september century |