In the canvassing of the past for what might be of use to the present, one finds in the case of Hugh Henry Brackenridge, chaplain to General Washington’s army as well as one of the University of Pittsburgh’s earliest lights, a few words requiring nothing more than republication. The advice in question can be found in his novel Modern Chivalry, a book that has never, despite its quality, achieved anything resembling true readership. The words are:
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