Chicago Historical Society

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    Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?
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    Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after the forms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.
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    Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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