Society, viz., the relative social, political and commercial importance of Lancaster and Lancaster county in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of our country's history. When there was no "Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburg and the West," our good city and our excellent county were "there!" Hence it is

what had been done there. This linking of event with locality is one of the fine traits of human thought. Nothing has con- tributed more to history in its best and broadest significance than the reverent tendency to associate the thing done with the place where it happened. Hawthorne somewhere points