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| - This is an attempt to make a history of the Fiction wikia. To explain why I'll quote the Stephenson County Portrait and Biographical Album (that's in Illinois, which is in the US): "We have completed our labors in writing and compiling the Portrait and Biographical Album of this county, and wish, in presenting it to our patrons, to speak briefly of the importance of local works of this nature. It is certainly the duty of the present to commemorate the past, to perpetuate the names of the pioneers, to furnish a record of their early settlement, and to relate the story of their progress. The civilization of our day, the enlightenment of the age, and this solemn duty which men of the present time owe to their ancestors, to themselves and to their posterity, demand that a record of their lives
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| - This is an attempt to make a history of the Fiction wikia. To explain why I'll quote the Stephenson County Portrait and Biographical Album (that's in Illinois, which is in the US): "We have completed our labors in writing and compiling the Portrait and Biographical Album of this county, and wish, in presenting it to our patrons, to speak briefly of the importance of local works of this nature. It is certainly the duty of the present to commemorate the past, to perpetuate the names of the pioneers, to furnish a record of their early settlement, and to relate the story of their progress. The civilization of our day, the enlightenment of the age, and this solemn duty which men of the present time owe to their ancestors, to themselves and to their posterity, demand that a record of their lives and deeds should be made. In local history is found a power to instruct man by precedent, to enliven the mental faculties, and to waft down the river of time a safe vessel in which the names and actions of the people who contributed to raise this region from it's primitive state may be preserved. Surely and rapidly the noble men, who in their vigor and prime came early to the county and claimed the virgin soil as their heritage, are passing to their graves. The number remaining who can relate the history of the first days of settlement is becoming small indeed, so that an actual necessity exists for the collection and preservation of historical matter without delay, before the settlers of the wilderness are cut down by time. Not only is it of the greatest importance to render history of pioneer times full and accurate but it is also essential that the history of the county, from it's settlement to the present day, should be treated through its various phases, so that a record, complete and impartial, may be handed down to the future. The present[,] the age of progress, is reviewed, standing out in bold relief over the quiet, unostentatious olden times; it is a brilliant record, which is destined to live in the future; the good works of men, their magnificent enterprises, their lives, whether commercial or military, do not sink into oblivion, but, on the contrary, grow brighter with age, and contribute to build up a record which carries with it precedent and principles that will be advanced and observed when the acts of soulless men will be forgotten and their very names hidden in obscurity." —Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County Illinois
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