Professor George Long

PROFESSOR GEORGE LONG

“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY

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1800

November 4, Tuesday: George Long was born at Poulton-le-Fylde as the eldest son of James Long, a West India merchant of Poulton in Lancashire. He would be educated at Macclesfield grammar school in Cheshire.

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

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1818

March 2, Monday: George Long of Lancashire was admitted sizar at St John’s College of Cambridge University.

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 2nd day 2 of 3 M / D Quinby is still engaged in town & it fell to my lot to give information to the families that he has visited yesterday as well as today. several times in passing about my mind was led to look back & reflect how much shorter time it now takes to visit the families in this place than it did say 60 years ago & even less time, this was the great seat of friends in New England, & in passing round I could see houses, several together, where were families of repute of weight, but now either deserted or inhabited by others, not a vestage of Ancient greatness remaining, but the bare House itself. - Well tho’ that generation has passed away I trust there is yet Salt remaining, & that if the present generation walk faithfully in the paths made known to us by the influence of the holy spirit, we shall yet Know an increase in good & that we shall dignify our profession as did those of ancient days. - RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

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September 29, Tuesday: Polonaise in Bb for violin and strings by Franz Schubert was performed for the initial time, in the Waisenhaus, Vienna.

At the age of 17, George Long of Lancashire was admitted sizar at Trinity College of Cambridge University. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1821

Henry Nelson Coleridge won the Greek Ode prize at King’s College of Cambridge University.

George Long was bracketed Craven scholar with Thomas Babington Macaulay and Henry Malden at Trinity College of Cambridge University.

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1822

George Long graduated B.A. at Trinity College of Cambridge University as 30th wrangler, and received the 1st chancellor’s Classical medal.

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

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1823

George Long was members’ prizeman, and gained a fellowship over the heads of Lord Macaulay and Professor Malden at Trinity College of Cambridge University.

Henry Nelson Coleridge, who after completing Eton had gone on to King’s College of Cambridge University, received the B.A. and became a Fellow. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1824

Pioneers from Virginia and New York founded Ann Arbor, Michigan.

George Long was chosen professor of ancient languages in the new University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia (until becoming professor of Greek at University College in London in 1828). While in the United States of America, he would be the frequent guest of President Thomas Jefferson, rector of that university.1

During Lafayette’s visit to Virginia, James Armistead Lafayette was able to bask once again in a white man’s reflected glory. (A recognized veteran of the Revolutionary struggle, and a free man in a free land, we need to bear in mind that still as a black this man was not being considered as or treated as a citizen.)

In Florida, a fourth mulatto child was born to the union of the white planter Zephaniah Kingsley with his black wife Anna Kingsley. Since in 1811 Kingsley had made out manumission papers in the name of Anna, this fourth child was of course born free. Kingsley also would acknowledge paternity of five children by two other of his enslaved or formerly enslaved mistresses, “Flora Kingsley” and “Sarah Kingsley,” and those of these five who had not been born free, he would likewise manumit. Kingsley had been up to, in Florida what Jefferson had been up to, in Virginia. Eventually the racial situation would harden and Kingsley would need to urge his mulatto heirs to emigrate “to some land of liberty and equal rights, where the conditions of society are governed by some law less absurd than that of color.”

1. With his 1st wife Harriet Gray of Virginia, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Selden, a judge of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, he would produce four sons and a daughter who would die in infancy. (Harriet had brought two daughters with her into her new marriage. She would die in 1841 and George Long would marry two more times.) HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1825

Professor George Long received the M.A. degree from Trinity College of Cambridge University. For two three years he would be being considered as a Fellow there (apparently despite the fact that he was already on his first job, in America).

Henry Nelson Coleridge, who wanted to get married with one of his cousins, was sent off to tour the West Indies.

NO-ONE’S LIFE IS EVER NOT DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY HAPPENSTANCE

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1828

In the rise of “English” as a scholarly discipline, the Reverend Thomas Dale was the first to be appointed to the first professorship of English Language and Literature, at the University of London on Gower Street in London (afterward, this would be known as University College).

Professor George Long’s TABLES OF COMPARATIVE ETYMOLOGY (Philadelphia, with J. Lewis). His INTRODUCTORY LECTURE [ON THE GREEK LANGUAGE] DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (London).

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

October 1, Wednesday: Founding of the University of London on Gower Street in London (afterward, this would be known as University College). Professor George Long of the University of Virginia had returned to England to become professor of Greek there (until 1831, when he would become editor of the Quarterly Journal of Education). The Long family would reside in Jacksons Lane, Highgate, to the west of Hornsey and would have three female servants, a coachman, and a gardener. With them from America they had brought one of the family slaves, Jacob Walker, who in England would be assigned the role “M.S.” (male servant), and it is not known whether it was Jacob who was that coachman, or that gardener.

Thomas Bell was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London.

In Newport, Rhode Island, Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 4th day 1st 10th M 1828 / Today Joseph S Tillinghast from N Bedford on his way to NYork Hudson &c called & dined with us & took letters for John whom he expects to see next first day. — he went in the Steam Boat Connecticut this Afternoon. — RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

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There’s a sketchy painting above the case that holds the Torah scrolls at the Touro Synagogue in Newport. It is a painting of the short names used, in the Hebrew language, for the Ten Commandments that Moses received from YHWH on Mount Sinai. I don’t have any better photo of the crude painting in question, which also depicts three golden crowns, than this one, for your edification, HDT WHAT? INDEX

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but here is a modern representation of the Hebrew characters in question. Read them from right to left:

One of the stories that grew up in Newport over the years had to do with those three golden crowns we can see so nicely depicted at the top of that painting. The story was that the synagogue building had been saved from being trashed during the occupation of the town in Revolutionary War years, when so many of the buildings in the abandoned town were being stripped for kindling to keep the occupying British soldiers warm, because the soldiers presumed that this building must have something to do with the King of England.

Another of the stories that grew up was that this painting, since it is, allegedly, “so fine,” must have been by the famous painter Gilbert Stuart, who resided in nearby North Kingstown. However, it is not listed as one of his known works, nor do we know that he ever painted anything even remotely like this.

As anyone who reads Hebrew who now visits this Newport tourist trap can look up and plainly see, the HDT WHAT? INDEX

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character that is shown in this painting as the third letter, in the captions of the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Commandments in the left column, is not correct! Four of the ten labels have been reduced to nonsense! If that painting had been hanging up there above the case of Torahs while the building was being used for Jewish worship services during the 18th Century, why would it have been that none of the members of this congregation, and none of the honored Jewish visitors to this synagogue, ever informed anyone of this error in the painting, and why would it have been that nobody went and fetched a ladder and some oil paint and climbed up there and touched over the linguistic error with a few simple dabs? This is what the character does look like (the artist did get the character right when he painted it in the 6th Commandment, at the top of the left column!), and this is what it might have been made to look like with a few more dabs of paint, had anyone known to correct that painting:

Granted, the Marranos2 who created this synagogue had been living a submerged life as pretend Christians3 since the Inquisition in Spain in Portugal, and granted, they had only just gotten back into the process of recovering their cultural roots — but surely some of them must have known enough Hebrew to be able to recite the Ten Commandments! So, why didn’t they correct this painting?

We discover in the records of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, that on this date the sum of $12.00 was paid to the clerk for the town of Newport, Benjamin Baker Howland, who was treasurer of the Newport Savings Bank and a local historian and artist, as reimbursement for a painting of the captions in Hebrew of the Ten Commandments.4 Clearly, Mr. Howland had as little actual knowledge of Hebrew as any other deacon of the local 1st Baptist Church. This painting of his had been created as a mere piece of esoterica, only marking this structure as having formerly been in use as a synagogue, and there would be no opportunity to discover and correct its error –since in point of fact, during the decades of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, there would be no religious services whatever in the structure –since in point of fact, there were no longer any Jews residing in Newport. JUDAISM

Maybe, as a deacon in the 1st Baptist Church, this Howland should have stuck to designing Christian T-shirts

2. Marrano = a Spanish or Portuguese Jew of the late Middle Ages who converted to Christianity, especially one forcibly converted but adhering secretly to Judaism. 3. For instance, for the first twenty or so years of his life, the President of this congregation, Aaron Lopez, had been living in Portugal as a Christian by the name of Duarte Lopez. He had been under such deep cover that he and his wife, who was always called “Anna” in Portugal, had had their wedding ceremony in a Catholic church. It was only after they were safely in Rhode Island that they were able to live openly under their given names Aaron and Abigail. 4. This is a “Mayflower” family and as you might imagine, there have been any number of Benjamin Howlands. A Benjamin Howland (1755-1821), had been a Democratic legislator in Rhode Island legislature, and had from 1804 to 1809, as a Jeffersonian Republican, served as one of the US Senators from Rhode Island. This clerk Benjamin Baker Howland of 1828 was not the son of this Senator Benjamin Howland who died in 1821. He was, instead, the son of Henry Howland and Susan Baker Howland, and had been born in Newport on December 11, 1787. At an early age he had been thrown upon his own resources, and having a taste for drawing and painting, had begun the study of portraiture under Robert Feke. In September 1825 he had succeeded Charles Gyles as town clerk of Newport, and soon afterwards became probate clerk. For many years he would be reelected without opposition, and he would serve his community as clerk until 1875. He died on October 20, 1877 and there is now a portrait of him in the mayor’s office. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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for sale to the summer tourists:

So it is clearly false, that the British troops of occupation spared the wood in this building because they saw those three golden crowns and thought of their monarch. The painting in question wouldn’t come into existence for another two human generations! More probably, the reason why this building was spared was that some British officer came along and said to himself “Now here’s a nice brick building, neat and spacious, with a raised platform at one end of a columned hall, to properly set off my desk and chair — I think this is the one I’ll have for my headquarters.”

And Gilbert Stewart? Give me a break, take a close look at the actual painting and recognize that a child could have painted something like this on the basis of a paint-by-the-numbers kit purchased at the K-Mart.

The preposterous stories that once circulated about this synagogue painting present an interesting example of the dangers posed by pseudohistorical accretion tendencies. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1829

Professor George Long’s A SUMMARY OF HERODOTUS. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1830

John Barrow and Professor George Long were founding member and key figure in the Royal Geographical Society, which would become a prime lobby for 19th-Century exploration.

Professor Long would be for many years a member of its council, and from 1846 to 1848 would be its honorary secretary. During this year he prepared his OBSERVATIONS ON THE STUDY OF THE LATIN AND GREEK LANGUAGES (London), and his HERODOTUS (Greek text).

CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT

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1831

Professor George Long became editor of the Quarterly Journal of Education 10 volumes of which would be put out between 1831 and 1835 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge of whose committee he was an active member. In this year he prepared a translation of XENOPHON’S ANABASIS.

THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

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1832

Professor George Long’s EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES (IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM) was published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1833

Until 1846 Professor George Long would be engaged in the laborious task of preparing for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge the 29 volumes of its PENNY CYCLOPÆDIA. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1837

June 9, Friday: Henry Halford and Wm. Fred of Chambers at Windsor Castle announced that “The King has suffered for some time from an affection of the chest, which confines his Majesty to his apartment, and has produced considerable weakness, but has not interrupted his usual attention to business.”

Professor George Long was admitted at the Inner Temple (other ways to phrase this would be: “called to the bar” and “became a barister”).

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 6th day 9 of 6 M / Friends have begun to come to Yearly Meeting & to our family, Thos Howland has been added RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1841

Professor George Long edited THE GEOGRAPHY OF AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He prepared his GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, a treatise in C. Knight’s STORE OF KNOWLEDGE.

June 18, Friday: Professor George Long’s wife Harriet Gray Long died of cancer at Highgate and the body was placed, with that of her slave Jacob Walker, in the churchyard of the Old Parish Church of St. Mary in Hornsey, England. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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August 12, Thursday: The necessary legal steps had been taken for Nathaniel Hawthorne to recover as much of the financing of the Brook Farm experiment as possible, and he was almost ready, in order to focus upon his “allegories of the heart,” to make his permanent exit from this exigent world of brow sweat and honest bread which had been weighing upon him more heavily than his sins:

And — joyful thought! — in a little more than a fortnight, thy husband will be free from his bondage — free to think of his Dove — free to enjoy Nature — free to think and feel! I do think that a greater weight will then be removed from me, than when Christian’s burthen fell off at the foot of the cross. Even my Custom House experience was not such a thraldom and weariness; my mind and heart were freer. Oh, belovedest, labor is the curse of this world, and nobody can meddle with it, without becoming proportionably brutified … etc.

Jacob Walker, who in Virginia had been a slave and in England a servant, died at the age of 40 after receiving a vaccination for the small pox. The body was interred with that of his former mistress Harriet Long in the churchyard of the Old Parish Church of St. Mary in Hornsey, England:

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AND THE WIFE OF GEORGE LONG DIED AT HIGHGATE ON THE 18TH DAY OF JUNE 1841 IN THE 40TH YEAR OF HER AGE.

LUX OCULIS RIDENS MAJESTAS FRONTE SERENA FULGEBAT TOTO SUAVIS AB ORE DECOR PAR ANIMUS FORMAE GRANDES IN PECTORE VIRES 5 CASTA FIDES PIETAS INGENIUMQUE SIMUL.

JACOB WALKER A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA IN AMERICA THE FAITHFUL SLAVE IN ENGLAND THE FAITHFUL SERVANT OF HARRIET AND GEORGE LONG AND AN HONEST MAN DIED AT HIGHGATE ON THE 12TH OF AUGUST 1841 IN THE 40TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

(A romantic fabrication would arise among the English, a kind of “Old Dog Tray” story, to account neatly for such an unusual interracial burial: this would be that Jacob Walker had been elderly and that a day or two after his mistress’s burial, his body had been found at her grave.)

5. A SMILING LIGHT SHONE IN THE EYES, MAJESTY ON THE SERENE BROW, / SWEET BEAUTY FROM THE WHOLE FACE / SPIRIT EQUAL TO BEAUTY, GREAT STRENGTH IN THE HEART / CHASTE LOYALTY, DUTY, AND INTELLIGENCE ALL TOGETHER. Presumably this epitaph, with its pointed parallelisms “native of Virginia” and “age 40,” had been prepared by the bereaved husband, Professor George Long. One cannot help but wonder what the surviving sons and daughters would have made of this strange treatment of their mother’s remains. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1842

Professor George Long was named as professor of Latin at University College in London, in succession to his friend Thomas Hewitt Key (until 1846). He wrote all the articles on Roman law for Dr. William Smith’s DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. Between this year and 1844 he would be in charge of editing the letter “A” comprising the initial seven volumes of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge’s BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1844

Professor George Long prepared the maps of Egypt and Persia for the atlas of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. From this year into 1848 he would be issuing the five successive volumes of his THE CIVIL WARS OF ROME (SELECT LIVES OF PLUTARCH, WITH NOTES). HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1845

During this year and the following one, publication of Professor George Long’s POLITICAL DICTIONARY (articles from the PENNY CYCLOPÆDIA as edited and corrected by the author). HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1846

Professor George Long resigned the chair of professor of Latin at University College in London, and for a short time would be lecturing on jurisprudence and civil law in the Inner Temple. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1847

Professor George Long’s TWO DISCOURSES ON ROMAN LAW. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1849

Professor George Long became classical lecturer at Brighton College (till midsummer 1871). While at Brighton he would edit several school editions of the classics, and, in conjunction with Mr. Arthur J. Macleane, establish and edit the BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA, contributing himself between 1851 and 1858 CICERO’S ORATIONS in 4 volumes. He would also publish his translation of Marcus Aurelius, THOUGHTS OF THE EMPEROR M. AURELIUS ANTONINUS (editions in 1862, 1869, and 1879), and begin the publication of the five volumes of his DECLINE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (London, 1864-1874). HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1850

Professor George Long’s FRANCE AND ITS REVOLUTIONS. A PICTORIAL HISTORY (London). HIs CICERO’S CATO MAJOR … LÆLIUS … ET EPISTOLÆ SELECTÆ (published among the Grammar School Classics). He wrote, with G.R. Porter, THE GEOGRAPHY OF GREAT BRITAIN, for publication by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1853

Professor George Long’s CÆSAR’S GALLIC WAR, WITH NOTES (published among the Grammar School Classics). HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1854

Professor George Long edited an ATLAS OF CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1856

Francis Galton, exotic traveler, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

William Hughes (1818-1876)’s and Professor George Long’s AN ATLAS OF CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY. CONSTRUCTED BY WILLIAM HUGHES, AND EDITED BY GEORGE LONG. WITH A SKETCH OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY, AND OTHER ADDITIONS, BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. CONTAINING FIFTY-TWO MAPS AND PLANS ON TWENTY-SIX PLATES, WITH AN INDEX OF PLACES (Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea). CARTOGRAPHY

We know how fascinated Henry Thoreau was by ancient maps, ancient conceptions of the world. He could visualize these in this atlas, a copy of which has been found in his personal library. CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1857

Professor George Long contributed to Volumes III and XII of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, and to Dr. William Smith’s DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN GEOGRAPHY. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1860

Professor George Long’s SALLUST’S CATILINE AND JUGURTHA (GRAMMAR SCHOOL CLASSICS). HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1862

Professor George Long’s AN OLD MAN’S THOUGHTS ABOUT MANY THINGS, and THE THOUGHTS OF THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.6 AN OLD MAN’S THOUGHTS

If I might give advice to the men now living, who look forward to the honour, if it is an honour, of being set up in bronze in the highways, or in marble in Westminster Abbey or St. Paul’s; if I might advice, I would say, leave a legacy in your will for your own statue. It will save much trouble and people will think better of you when you are gone, if you cost them nothing. As to their laughing at you for looking after your own statue, be not afraid of that. I have been informed that an American publisher has printed the first edition of this translation of M. Antoninus. I do not grudge him his profit, if he has made any. There may be many men and women in the United States who will be glad to read the thoughts of the Roman Emperor. If the American politicians, as they are called, would read them also, I should be much pleased, but I do not think the emperor’s morality would suit their taste.

6. Professor Long would be a staunch supporter of the American South during the US Civil War. This, however, does not demonstrate in and of itself that he was also proslavery. I have never dedicated a book to any man, and if I dedicated this, I should choose the man whose name seemed to me most worthy to be joined to that of the Roman soldier and philosopher. I might dedicate the book to the successful general who is now the President of the United States, with the hope that his integrity and justice will restore peace and happiness, so far as he can, to those unhappy States which have suffered so much from war and the unrelenting hostility of wicked men. But, as the Roman poet said, Victrix causa Deis placuit, sed victa Catoni; and if I dedicated this little book to any man, I would dedicate it to him who led the Confederate armies against the powerful invader, and retired from an unequal contest defeated, but not dishonoured; to the noble Virginian soldier, whose talents and virtues place him by the side of the best and wisest man who sat on the throne of the Imperial Caesars. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1864

From this year into 1874, the five volumes of Professor George Long’s DECLINE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1871

Professor George Long retired to Portfield in Chichester. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1872

An expanded 2d edition of Professor George Long’s AN OLD MAN’S THOUGHTS ABOUT MANY THINGS. AN OLD MAN’S THOUGHTS

I could go on much longer, but I don’t choose. I write to amuse myself, and also to instruct, and when I am tired, I stop. I see no reason why I should exhaust the subject. I should only be giving my ideas to people who have none, who make a reputation out of other folks’ brains, who pounce on anything that they find ready to their hand, and flood us with books made only to sell. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1873

Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone obtained for George Long a civil list pension of £100 annually, for his services to learning. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1874

George Long edited a 2d edition of his 1854 ATLAS OF CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1877

George Long’s DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS, and his ENCHIRIDION OF EPICTETUS, AND FRAGMENTS. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1879

August 10, Sunday: After six months of illness, George Long died at Chichester at the age of 78. The body would be placed in the cemetery at Portfield. H.J. Mathews would prepare IN MEMORIAM, GEORGE LONG. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1881

The George Long prize was founded in the memory of Professor George Long.

“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others, such as extensive quotations and reproductions of images, this “read-only” computer file contains a great deal of special work product of Austin Meredith, copyright 2015. Access to these interim materials will eventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup some of the costs of preparation. My hypercontext button invention which, instead of creating a hypertext leap through hyperspace —resulting in navigation problems— allows for an utter alteration of the context within which one is experiencing a specific content already being viewed, is claimed as proprietary to Austin Meredith — and therefore freely available for use by all. Limited permission to copy such files, or any material from such files, must be obtained in advance in writing from the “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Please contact the project at .

“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.” – Remark by character “Garin Stevens” in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST

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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obvious deficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored in the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need to punch that button again and recompile the chronology — but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary “writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge. Place requests with . Arrgh. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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