holding through disasters, persecutions, suffering, and not less through the seductions of milder but meaner times, seeing through all shining clearly the goal:  he will record it all, and, still marvelling, come to the issue that dauntless spirit has reached, proud and happy; but he will write of that issue—­Liberty; Inevitable:  in two words to epitomise the history of a people that is without a parallel in the Annals of the World.