�The history of any private family (query
person) however humble could it be fully related, would il-
lustrate the state and progress of society, bet-
ter than could be done by the most elaborate
dissertation.�
			Southey�s �Doctor.�
  �There is no action of man in this life
which is not the beginning of so long a chain
of consequences as that no human providence
is high enough to give us a prospect to the
end.�			Thomas of Malesbury.