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“Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.”
 
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Name:   Hervey Allen
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Dec 8, 1889
 
Date of Death:   Dec 28,  1949
 
Profession:   Author
 
 
 
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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.
 
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Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
 
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Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
 
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Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
 
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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.
 
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