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The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
William H. Prescott
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William H. Prescott
Age: 62 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: January 29
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Salem
Massachusetts
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