Hervey Allen Quotes

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

- Hervey Allen

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In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. - Hervey Allen

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded. - Hervey Allen

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. - Hervey Allen