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The variety of his intellectual achievement is more remarkable than their magnitude. As a teacher of his tory at Harvard for seven years he was one of the . Pioneers of the semi nary method of study. Besides other more or less notable works in this field he published a History of Jefferson s and Madison s Administrations, mon umental in bulk, and almost unique in its combination of documentary re search, philosophical reflection, and literary charm. He divulged a scien tific theory of the perio...ds of human growth and decline in history which is strikingly original and, it must be added, rather sad. For six years he AND MONOGRAPHS THE AMERICAN ACADEMY edited the North American Review, then the most solid magazine of the country. He wrote two novels, one of which, Democracy, aroused a good deal of heated comment by its satirical picture of Washington political soci ety. He composed verse, not much in quantity, but weighted with thought and emotion and technically more than respectable. His letters, printed since his death, show him to have been a master of the quaint and whimsical in this delicate genre.
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