All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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![“It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/792/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_age_it-is-very-certain-that-the-strong-briti_2491802.jpg)
