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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 174: January April, 1892 Green. Founded to accumulate and publish original authorities of every sort for a continuous history of the municipal, religious, and academic life of Oxford, it is training up a band of historians, archaeologists, palmographers, and antiquarians, who have not feared the reproach of specialists, nor recalled from the unremunerated labour of independent research. Not content to copy materials which previous historians borrowed from one another at second or third hand, unwilling to accept unverified statements that the partisan prejudices of an Anthony 8 Wood, or a Thomas Hearne, have coloured or distorted, they are engaged in investigating original authorities, and in arranging the preliminaries for the historian of the future. To accumu late facts rather than to paint pictures; to chronicle events instead of suggesting comparisons or illustrations to sift, verify, or correct, details of historical evidence rather than to indol in brilliant generalizations, are the selfodenying tasks to Whig the Society dedicates its energies. Here at least is knowledge sought for its own sake, and not pursued for the profit, or the honour, of the study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.