Bancroft and Parkman, writing about their wild native country, were able to display a kind of c

As Cort‚s moves methodically around the lake, taking town after town, his "scientific" strategy stands out clearly against the Mexicans' reliance on inexhaustible numbers. "95 The analogy to painting applied also to natural scenery. 64 The grotesque incongruity of the red, black, and white in this picture does much more than the heavy satire of Motley's narrative and his indignant moral judgments to achieve the effect he wants. And "justification by faith alone" meant to Bancroft intellectual freedom. Yet in the narrative Cort‚s' unconventional traits and motives have little functional importance. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow. Virtue, of course, was morally instructive, but the results of evil were more so.

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