5951. NEWSPAPERS, And history.—
I
really look with commiseration over the
great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading
newspapers, live and die in the belief,
that they have known something of what
has been passing in the world in their time;
whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers
are just as true a history of any other
period of the world as of the present, except
that the real names of the day are affixed
to their fables.—
To John Norvell. Washington ed. v, 92.
Ford ed., ix, 73.
(W.
1807)
