MDDM Christ & History

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Otto wrote:
> 
> No Christ at all in this textpiece, but a lot on American history:
> 
> "Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,-- Tops and Hoops, forever
> a-spin... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is
> not Chronology, for that is left to lawyers, -- nor is it Remembrance, for
> Remembrance belongs to the People. History can as little pretend to the
> Veracity of the one, as claim the Power of the other,-- her Practitioners,
> to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc, spy, and Taproom
> Wit,-- that there may ever continue more than one life-line back into a Past
> we risk, each day, losing our forebears in forever,-- not a Chain of single
> Links, for one broken Link could lose us All,-- rather, a great disorderly
> Tangle of Lines, long and short, weak and strong, vanishing into the
> Mnemonick Deep, with only their Destination in common." (349)

In my book, on the same page, it also reads as above, but with one
difference, it continues with one more line:  

--The REVd Wicks Cherrycoke, Christ and History

Christ is in the text piece. In fact, Christ is in the title of the text
piece. 

Also, American history is not mentioned at all in the passage.