The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman's narrative are among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman's narrative are among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art." in the context of "Edmund Wilson, on Parkman's France and England in North America, in O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture (1965)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.