"One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization."

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Source : John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

John Jay Chapman

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