Memoirs of Jean Franc¸ois Marmontel, Vol. 1 of 2
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Excerpt from Memoirs of Jean Franc¿ois Marmontel, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Essay by William D. Howells In reading the history of what are notorious as corrupt periods, it seems to me that one ought to exercise a certain scepticism in behalf of humanity. If this poor world of ours is not quite so good as we should like it in out better moods, I think it is not so wholly bad, either, as it appears when we consider the lost condition of our neighbors. The satirists, who are for the most part great liars, are unhappily the best painters of contemporary manners, and History - a good, stupid, honest enough Muse - is too often dazzled by their brilliancy, and, resorting to them as authority, unconsciously applies their vivid colors to morals, and nally presents a type which is not really representative of the epoch. If society were what history or the morning paper portrays it during some period of decadence or after some "carnival of crime," society would incontinently drop to pieces of its own rottenness. But the truth must he, that in every corrupt age there is a vast amount of quiet virtue and purity which form the real life of the community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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