what has happened。 This union of the two meanings we must regard as of a higher order than mere
outward accident； we must suppose historical narrations to have appeared contemporaneously
with historical deeds and events。 It is an internal vital principle mon to both that produces them
synchronously。 Family memorials； patriarchal traditions； have an interest confined to the family and
the clan。 The uniform course of events which such a condition implies； is no subject of serious
remembrance； though distinct transactions or turns of fortune； may rouse Mnemosyne to form
conceptions of them； — in the same way as love and the religious emotions provoke imagination to
give shape to a previously formless impulse。 But it is the State which first presents subject…matter
that is not only adapted to the prose of History； but involves the production of such history in the
very progress of its own being。 Instead of merely subjective mandates on the part of government；
— sufficing for the needs of the moment； — a munity that is acquiring a stable existence； and
exalting itself into a State； requires formal mands and laws — prehensive and universally
binding prescriptions； and thus produces a record as well as an interest concerned with intelligent；
definite — and； in their results — lasting transactions and occurrences； on which Mnemosyne； for
the behoof of the perennial object of the formation and constitution of the State； is impelled to
confer perpetuity。 Profound sentiments generally； such as that of love； as also religious intuition and
its conceptions； are in themselves plete — constantly present and satisfying； but that outward
existence of a political con