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3410. GENERATIONS, Wisdom and.—[continued].

I withdraw from all contests
of opinion, and resign everything cheerfully
to the generation now in place. They are
wiser than we were, and their successors will
be wiser than they, from the progressive advance
of science.—
To Spencer Roane. Washington ed. vii, 136. Ford ed., x, 142.
(P.F.,,
18191819)gt;