They resemble their great original as much as Greenough's classically nude statue, exposed to the incongruities of the North American climate, resembles in dress and appearance the general of our armies and the first President of the United States.
Such are the myth-makers.

They are widely different from the critics who have assailed Washington in a sidelong way, and who can be better dealt with in a later chapter.

These last bring charges which can be met; the myth-maker presents a vague conception, extremely difficult to handle because it is so elusive.
One of our well-known historical scholars and most learned antiquarians, not long ago, in an essay vindicating the "traditional Washington," treated with scorn the idea of a "new Washington" being discovered.

In one sense this is quite right, in another totally wrong.

There can be no new Washington discovered, because there never was but one.