"The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity."

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No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne