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Show STATESMAN VS. HISTORIAN. Harper's Weekly, which is booming Prof. Wood-row Wood-row Wilson for President, was asked , by a correspondent corre-spondent recently if an eminent historian possesses the right order of mind to make a great President. In reply the Weekly cites the case of Theodore Roosevelt. There are people who will challenge that comparison. com-parison. The President's histories are absolutely correct so far as facts are concerned, but in his de- ; ductions from the fact, there are people who will not agree with him, but will urge, that in that respect re-spect the historian, now and then, is lost in the individual, in-dividual, that as in the case of Macaulay the impulses im-pulses and quick convictions of the writer were not held under sufficient restraint, and that the order of mind is more that of a politician and constructive statesmen than of an unimpassioned historian. |