Antiquarism

We cannot help congratulating the public on this very uncommon attempt to revive the uſeful but too much neglected art of antiquariſm.

Well, I confess my forgetfulness; but what historian, who ever gets free from mere antiquarism, can help forgetting? A modern realism surely does no greater violence to history than antiquarism.

Thus, absolute antiquarism, as well as an absolute presentism, exist as tendencies, and the extreme realization of either leads to absurdity.