Excerpt from Norman Leslie: A Tale

When Baron Cuvier discovered, in the quarries near Paris, the fossil-bone of an antediluvian monster, he was at once able, from this imperfect material, to determine the class to which the animal belonged.

In like manner, when the historian, from the mine of past ages, digs up some crumbling fragment of character and event, it can hardly be called fiction, if, from such data, assigning the class of mind, he cal enlates, with something approaching to certainty, what must, under such circumstances, have been the course of the individual's actions and words.

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