How each of us developed himself,
what he strove for, attained, or missed, what objects he formerly
pursued and what plans and wishes his heart is now set on, what
transformation his views have experienced, what perturbations
his principles -- in short, how he has today become what yesterday
or years ago he was not -- this he brings out again from his memory
with more or less ease, and he feels with especial vividness what
changes have taken place in himself when he has before his eyes
the unrolling of another's life.
Let us therefore look into the activities
our forefathers busied themselves with.