THE REV. GEORGE WADDINGTON, D.D.

“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY

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September 7, Saturday: George Waddington was born at Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, a son of the Reverend George Waddington with Anne Dolland Waddington (youngest daughter of the optician Peter Dolland).

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

1793

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George Waddington matriculated at the Charterhouse School at Godalming, in Surrey.

NO-ONE’S LIFE IS EVER NOT DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY HAPPENSTANCE

1808

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George Waddington transferred from preparatory schooling at the Charterhouse School of Godalming in Surrey, to continued preparatory schooling at Trinity College of Cambridge University, where he was Browne medallist for the Latin ode (he had his prize-winning Latin ode printed for circulation among his friends).

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

1811

TRINITY COLLEGE

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George Waddington was admitted as a scholar at Trinity College of Cambridge University. His poem “Columbus” won in a competition sponsored by Gentleman’s Magazine.

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD?— NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES.

LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

1812

WADDINGTON’S COLUMBUS

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July: At Trinity College of Cambridge University, George Waddington was named as the Davies’s University Scholar, and for his poem “Columbus” he was named as the 1st Chancellor’s Gold Medallist (Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, in his capacity as Chancellor of Cambridge University, presented this gold medal to him, and then on Commencement Day he would be asked to read his poem aloud in it entirety at the Senate House).

• 1813 — George Waddington, for “Columbus.”• 1814 — William Whewell, for “Boadicea.”• 1815 — Edward Smirke, for “Wallace.”• 1816 — Hamilton Sydney Beresford, for “Mahomet.”• 1817 — Chauncy Hare Townshend, for “Jerusalem.”• 1818 — Charles Edward Long, for “Imperial and Papal Rome.”• 1819 — Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, for “Pompeii.”• 1821 — Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, for “Evening.”• 1823 — Winthrop Mackworth Praed, for “Australasia.”• 1824 — Winthrop Mackworth Praed, for “Athens.”• 1825 — Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, for “Sculpture.”• 1827 — Christopher Wordsworth, for “The Druids.”• 1828 — Christopher Wordsworth, for “Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte.”• 1829 — Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson, for “Timbuctoo.”• 1831 — George Stovin Venables, for “Attempts to find a North West Passage.”• 1842 — Henry James Sumner Maine, for “Birth of the Prince of Wales.”• 1844 — Edward Henry Bickersteth, for “The Tower of London.”• 1845 — Edward Henry Bickersteth, for “Caubul.”• 1846 — Edward Henry Bickersteth, for “Caesar’s Invasion of Britain.”• 1852 — Frederic William Farrar, for “The Arctic Regions.”•

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1813

WADDINGTON’S COLUMBUS

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At Trinity College of Cambridge University, George Waddington was the medallist for epigrams.

THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1814

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At Trinity College of Cambridge University, George Waddington graduated BA, as senior optime in the mathematical tripos and as the 1st Chancellor’s Medallist. Publication of his ACADEMICAL EXERCISES, &C.

CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT

1815

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Barnard Hanbury, 3d son of Charles Hanbury, Esq. of Halstead, received the BA degree at Jesus College, while at Trinity College of Cambridge University, George Waddington was member’s prizeman.

1816

JESUS COLLEGETRINITY COLLEGE

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George Waddington was admitted a minor fellow of Trinity College of Cambridge University.

1817

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George Waddington received his MA degree and was admitted a major fellow of Trinity College of Cambridge University.

1818

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January: In Venice, the Reverend Barnard Hanbury and George Waddington determined to go off together on an adventure in Egypt and Nubia.

August 15, Tuesday: In order to oppose the ownership claims being asserted by Savannah attorneys acting as consuls for Spain and Portugal, the US District Attorney for Georgia, Richard Wylly Habersham, began to argue that the Africans brought to Savannah aboard the negrero Antelope should be given their freedom.

At about the middle of the month, arriving in Alexandria, Egypt, the Reverend Barnard Hanbury and George Waddington learned that the Turkish army of Mahommed Ali Pasha was presently involved in the “reduction” of the district beyond the Second Cataract of the Nile River. They resolved to follow along after this fortuitous army, and sought appropriate letters of introduction (Henry Thoreau would read about this).

1820

HENRY WOULD READ ABOUT IT

INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE

HENRY WOULD READ ABOUT IT

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November 10, Friday: After a “trial” requiring more than two months, a vote was taken upon the 3d reading of the bill against Lady Caroline Amelia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess of Wales in the House of Lords. The bill was approved 108-99, a margin so small that the government would not dare to introduce it in the House of Commons. The court lawyers needed to abandon the petition of King George IV to prevent his wife from becoming queen consort of England by divorcing her — against her fitness her husband the monarch-designate had sought to submit mere court gossip, chatter that under the law amounted only to the flimsiest of hearsay evidences and turned out to be in its entirety inadmissible. British street crowds greeted the news with cheers and there would follow three days of nationwide spontaneous celebration.1

The Reverend Barnard Hanbury and George Waddington arrived at Wady Halfa, above the 2d cataract of the Nile River, and were provided by the Turkish army with five dromedary camels, one too few for their party of six. They were advised, however, that it would be an easy and pleasant 8-day hike to Dóngola.

November 11, Saturday: The Reverend Barnard Hanbury and George Waddington set off from Wady Halfa in the direction of Dóngola, in search for the ruins of Meroe. In their party were a young Irishman named James Curtin, a man from Malta named Giovanni Fiamingo, his teenage cousin Giuseppe Fiamingo, and a black slave.

Caroline Amelia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess of Wales was acquitted. The Manchester Observer would comment that “The Queen owes her deliverance ... solely to the INTERPOSITION OF THE PEOPLE. She remains Queen of England by the choice of the people ... the people have overawed the parliament, and have preserved the rights of the Queen inviolate by the menace of their vengeance.” The people celebrated that night, smashing windows and firing pistols into the air, and Cobbett estimated that across the nation some 50,000 guns must have been discharged in celebration. Churches were invaded and clergy insulted. The police and military found it necessary to read the Riot act in more than a dozen towns.

1. She would fall ill after being barred from her husband’s coronation at Westminster Abbey and would die on August 7, 1821, so, you might say, the royal’s little problem eventually solved itself.

HENRY WOULD READ ABOUT IT

HENRY WOULD READ ABOUT IT

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December 24, Sunday: Having inspected the peculiar Ethiopian antiquities which they had come to inspect, the Reverend Barnard Hanbury and George Waddington began to retrace their steps.

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal:

1st day 24th of 12 M / Our meetings both Small & Silent, some favor experienced, but on the whole the Spring of life was low. Oh the need for those whose lot it is to go in & out before The People, to have their minds covered with a covering of the Lords Spirit I often feel the need of This. my heart is affected with a sense of my short comings. —

HENRY WOULD READ ABOUT IT

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

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February 1, Thursday: Canvass White received a US patent for a cement that would harden underwater.

The publication of two Capriccios for piano op.47 by Muzio Clementi was entered at Stationer’s Hall, London.

Sagt, woher stammt Liebeslust, a lied for soprano, alto, female chorus and guitar by Carl Maria von Weber, was performed for the initial time, as part of Der Kaufmann von Venedig, a play by Schlegel after Shakespeare, in the Dresden Hoftheater.

The Reverend Barnard Hanbury and George Waddington arrived back at their point of insertion into the African desert, Wadi Halfa, only a bit the worse for wear and tear.

1821

CANALS

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George Waddington’s and the Reverend Barnard Hanbury’s JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOME PARTS OF ETHIOPIA. WITH MAPS AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS (London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street).

1822

A VISIT TO ETHIOPIA

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This described their journey between Wadi Halfa (ا on the Nile River in Northern Sudan to Meroë ( وادي حلف on the Nile River just downstream from Khartoum. Everything about the writing and the illustrations (مرواه)was provided by Waddington, the Reverend Hanbury having been merely his traveling companion.

In 1834 Henry Thoreau would check this volume out of the Harvard Library.

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Upon the creation of the Athenæum Club, George Waddington was one of the initial members.

1824

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George Waddington’s A VISIT TO GREECE IN 1823 AND 1824 (a 2d edition would be issued within the year).

1825

WADDINGTON IN GREECE

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In about this year George Waddington was ordained in the Church of England.

1826

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December: On the day of Commemoration, the Reverend George Waddington preached the sermon in the chapel of Trinity College of Cambridge University.

1827

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The Reverend George Waddington’s THE PRESENT CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE GREEK OR ORIENTAL CHURCH, WITH SOME LETTERS WRITTEN FROM THE CONVENT OF THE STROPHADES, which, when revised, would be reissued in a new edition in 1854 (the letters were addressed to “T.,” which probably was his contemporary at school and college, Bishop Connop Thirlwall, who was in the process of writing an 8-volume history of Greece).

1829

THE GREEK CHURCH

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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE REFORMATION. BY THE REV. GEORGE WADDINGTON, M.A. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND PREBENDARY OF FERRING, IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHICHESTER. PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE (London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row; in two parts; a 2d edition of this would appear in 1835, revised, in 3 parts).

February 1, Friday: The Reverend George Waddington was presented by his college to the perpetual curacy of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge.

April 13, Saturday: Otto Nicolai gave his initial concert in Berlin as composer, singer, and pianist. Several works were premiered, including the Symphony no.1, Variationen uber Webers Schlaf Herzenssohnchen op.19 for soprano and piano, and his scene and aria Tell auf der Strasse nach Kussnacht op.22.

Bryan Donkin wrote Charles Babbage, relating that he had discussed the bills of the contractor Joseph Clement with the Treasury and the government was willing to pay for work done thus far.

April 14, Sunday: The Reverend George Waddington was collated to the prebendal stall of Ferring in Chichester Cathedral (he would hold this until 1841).

Sergei Uvarov, Russian Minister of Education, promulgated a “Doctrine of Official Nationality” under which to be considered Russian one must assent to three stipulations: Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.

Hector Berlioz’s Intrata di Rob-Roy Macgregor for orchestra was performed for the initial time, in the Paris Conservatoire (this failed).

June 17, Monday: Waldo Emerson left Switzerland for France, after having been dragged by fellow passengers to visit Ferney while protesting that Voltaire was unworthy of their memory.

The Reverend George Waddington was presented by his college to the vicarage of Masham and Kirkby-Malzeard in Yorkshire.

The expedition led by Commander George Back carried the flag of the Hudson’s Bay Company as it reached Norway House on Jack River.

... having hoisted the Company’s flag, we arrived at the depotcalled Norway House, situated on Jack River.

1833

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH

THE FROZEN NORTH

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October 1, Tuesday: On the Atlantic coast of South America, Charles Darwin arrived at Rio Tercero, Argentina.

The Reverend George Waddington was made commissary and official of the prebend of Masham.

Felix Mendelssohn entered upon duties as the director of music in Dusseldorf. His duties would include directing the choral and orchestral societies of the city, and music for Catholic services.

In the frozen northlands of Canada, here is Commander George Back.

Starving Indians continued to arrive from every point of thecompass, declaring that the animals had left the Barren Landswhere they had hitherto been accustomed to feed at this season;and that the calamity was not confined to the Yellow Knives, butthat the Chipewyans also were as forlorn and destitute asthemselves. There is no reasoning with a hungry belly, that I

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am acquainted with.THE FROZEN NORTH

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September 30, Tuesday: David Henry Thoreau checked out, from Harvard Library, John Barrow’s A VOYAGE TO COCHINCHINA IN THE YEARS 1792 AND 1793: CONTAINING A GENERAL VIEWS OF THE VALUABLE PRODUCTIONS AND THE POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS FLOURISHING KINGDOM; TO WHICH IS ANNEXED AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY, MADE IN THE YEARS 1801 AND 1802, TO THE RESIDENCE OF THE CHIEF OF THE BOOSHUANA NATION, BEING THE REMOTEST POINT IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA ... (London: Strahan and Preston, for T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand, 1806).

1834

SIR JOHN BARROW

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He also checked out George Waddington’s and the Reverend Barnard Hanbury’s JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOME PARTS OF ETHIOPIA (London: John Murray, 1822).

“There is no Frigate like a BookTo take us Lands away”

— Emily Dickinson

A VISIT TO ETHIOPIA

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From the Western frontier, Ohio, Johann Heinrich zur Oeveste (1801-1871) forwarded a message of advice to his relatives in the Osnabrück region of northern Germany:

[L]et me write about this country as far as I know about it. Of course, I cannot touch on everything in just a letter.It is a free country and this freedom I like in some respects, not in others. This state is just being developed and its oldest cities were only started 30 or 40 years ago. Its inhabitants are primarily Americans who moved here from Pennsylvania and other states; and the Pennsylvanians, for the most part, speak a fairly good German. Earlier, this state was in the hands of wild Indian nations. It looks much different from Germany. There is a wealth of wood. One sees here the finest tree trunks piled on each other and rotting away, and there are all kinds of strange

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kinds of wood in the forests. The soil here is rather heavy and stony. Corn is grown widely and does really well here. The other crops I have not seen to be any better than yours in Germany. Raising cattle is profitable. Horses here are quite good and there are all kinds of farm animals like in Germany.The main language here is English. I can't write you much about Religion because it is quite different here. Many people live almost totally without it and are neither baptized nor prepared for Holy Communion; others join a denomination of their choice as adults. Now and then churches and schools are begun, but only few parents send their children to them because attendance is not enforced, and each one can keep his religious preference. Personally, we go to the German Lutheran Church in Mehemesburg at least every two weeks. There are good German preachers here but they have very little income because the amounts of giving are up to the individual members. And because it is a free country, nobody is subservient to anybody else.In our area no land is available anymore and it is mostly inhabited. The areas that still have land for sale are New Bremen, Wabokonette and Stalloto[w]n which was named for the bookbinder from Damme [Franz Joseph Stallo, 1793-1833]. They sell the acre for $1.25 — all in woods. Personally and till now I have not had the urge to chop my way into the bush.So far, I cannot forget Germany and will not recommend to anyone to follow me. One has to make up his own mind. Much more money can be earned here, but things are more expensive, too.But if you stay healthy you can save more for a rainy day than back home...

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A revised and expanded new edition of 1833’s HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE REFORMATION. BY THE REV. GEORGE WADDINGTON, M.A. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND PREBENDARY OF FERRING, IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHICHESTER. PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE (London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row; revised and expanded, in 3 volumes; New York: Harper & Brothers, three volumes as one).

1835

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH

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At Trinity College of Cambridge University, George Waddington received the DD degree. In this year Francis Galton was a matriculating student.

The Reverend Thomas Fuller, D.D.’s THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE YEAR 1634 (Cambridge UP).

Republication of THE HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND.

1840

HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES

HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES

HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES

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The three volumes as republished contained in addition “brief notices of the most celebrated worthies of England who have flourished since the time of Fuller, with explanatory notes and copious indexes by P. Austin Nuttall, LL.D.” (London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside).

A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism arenot a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still uponthe walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by theshields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which weresuspended there. We have not far to seek for living andunquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirmssome story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on thezeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gatestill surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solonendeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to theAthenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to beopened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned thefaces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but theMegareans to the opposite side. There they were to beinterrogated.

THOMAS FULLER

WILLIAM CAMDEN

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PEOPLE OFA WEEK

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September 25, Friday: The Reverend George Waddington was installed in the deanery of Durham.

September 25, 1840: Social yearnings unsatisfied are the temporalness of time. (1, 179)

December 27, Sunday: The Reverend George Waddington preached his farewell sermon at Masham.

A WEEK: What is called common sense is excellent in itsdepartment, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in thearmy and navy, — for there must be subordination, — but uncommonsense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as muchmore excellent as it is more rare. Some aspire to excellence inthe subordinate department, and may God speed them. What Fullersays of masters of colleges is universally applicable, that “alittle alloy of dulness in a master of a college makes him fitterto manage secular affairs.”

“He that wants faith, and apprehends a grief Because he wants it, hath a true belief; And he that grieves because his grief’s so small, Has a true grief, and the best Faith of all.”

Or be encouraged by this other poet’s strain, —

“By them went Fido marshal of the field: Weak was his mother when she gave him day; And he at first a sick and weakly child, As e’er with tears welcomed the sunny ray; Yet when more years afford more growth and might, A champion stout he was, and puissant knight,

As ever came in field, or shone in armor bright.

“Mountains he flings in seas with mighty hand; Stops and turns back the sun’s impetuous course; Nature breaks Nature’s laws at his command; No force of Hell or Heaven withstands his force; Events to come yet many ages hence, He present makes, by wondrous prescience; Proving the senses blind by being blind to sense.”

THOMAS FULLER

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PEOPLE OFA WEEK

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The Reverend George Waddington, D.D.’s A HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION ON THE CONTINENT.

1841

HISTORY OF REFORMATION

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The canons of Durham paid to have a full-length portrait of the Reverend George Waddington painted by F. Say (this is now in the Cathedral Church of Chichester’s library, along with Waddington’s collection of Greek vases).

1850

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A marble bust of the Reverend George Waddington was sculpted by J.E. Jones of London (it is now in the Cathedral Church of Chichester’s library, together with his tasteful collection of Greek vases).

1858

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Augustus John Cuthbert Hare characterized the Reverend George Waddington as “a man of stately presence, living on a great reputation for learning and cleverness.” (According to Wikipedia, Augustus John Cuthbert Hare was an 19th-Century English writer and raconteur with a “soup strainer” mustache who was “the author of a large number of books, which fall into two classes: biographies of members and connections of his family, and descriptive and historical accounts of various countries and cities.” His judgments of human character should therefore be awarded due consideration.)

1861

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The Reverend George Waddington became Warden of Cambridge University.

1862

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July 20, Tuesday: George Waddington died at Durham, England (the body would be placed on the north side of the yard of the Cathedral Church of Chichester).

Professor Henri-Frédéric Amiel, who would be referred to as the “Swiss Thoreau,” wrote in his JOURNAL INTIME: “I have been reading over again five or six chapters, here and there, of Renan’s “St. Paul.” Analyzed to the bottom, the writer is a freethinker, but a free thinker whose flexible imagination still allows him the delicate epicurism of religious emotion. In his eyes the man who will not lend himself to these graceful fancies is vulgar, and the man who takes them seriously is prejudiced. He is entertained by the variations of conscience, but he is too clever to laugh at them. The true critic neither concludes nor excludes; his pleasure is to understand without believing, and to profit by the results of enthusiasm, while still maintaining a free mind, unembarrassed by illusion. Such a mode of proceeding has a look of dishonesty; it is nothing, however, but the good-tempered irony of a highly-cultivated mind, which will neither be ignorant of anything nor duped by anything. It is the dilettantism of the Renaissance in its perfection. At the same time what innumerable proofs of insight and of exultant scientific power!”

September 20, Monday: At the deanery in Durham, England, sale of the library of the Reverend George Waddington.

1869

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In memory of the brothers George Waddington and Horatio Waddington (deceased as of 1867), their sisters funded at Cambridge University a Waddington Classical Scholarship.

“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

1870

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others,such as extensive quotations and reproductions ofimages, this “read-only” computer file contains a greatdeal of special work product of Austin Meredith,copyright 2015. Access to these interim materials willeventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup someof the costs of preparation. My hypercontext buttoninvention which, instead of creating a hypertext leapthrough hyperspace —resulting in navigation problems—allows for an utter alteration of the context withinwhich one is experiencing a specific content alreadybeing viewed, is claimed as proprietary to AustinMeredith — and therefore freely available for use byall. Limited permission to copy such files, or anymaterial from such files, must be obtained in advancein writing from the “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo”Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Pleasecontact the project at <Kouroo@kouroo.info>.

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“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over untiltomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.”

– Remark by character “Garin Stevens”in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST

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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by ahuman. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested thatwe pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of theshoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What thesechronological lists are: they are research reports compiled byARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term theKouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such arequest for information we merely push a button.

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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obviousdeficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored inthe contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then weneed to punch that button again and recompile the chronology —but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary“writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of thisoriginating contexture improve, and as the programming improves,and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whateverhas been needed in the creation of this facility, the entireoperation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminishedneed to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expectto achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring roboticresearch librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge.Place requests with <Kouroo@kouroo.info>. Arrgh.