History, Its Place in a Liberal Education Address (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from History, Its Place in a Liberal Education Address Grote proposes in his History of Greece to set forth, "Hellenic phenomena as illustrative of Hellenic mind and character;" - to exhibit a general picture, the points of resemblance as well as of contrast with modern society, and the action of the social system. Sir James Stephens, viewing history "as a drama of which retribution is the law, opinion the chief agent, and the improvement and ultimate happiness of our race, the appointed though remote catastrophe," asserts that, "to trace out the progress of public opinion in moulding the character and condition of the nations is the highest office of History." Taine would read as in a mirror, the laws of historical development in individual manifestations; and these again in the unconscious out-cropping of literary endeavor. Michelet epigrammatically says: "Thierry called history narrative; and M. Guizot, analysis. I have named it resurrection, and it will retain the name." With one it is fact and individual man; with another, philosophy; the third strives by force of imagination to summon into life the image of the perished. To these three views of History, or their combinations, all writing or study of History must in the main conform; and yet to my mind they do not convey an exact, clear, and full conception of the idea we seek. You will pardon me therefore it I attempt a definition, which I shall then endeavor to verify: History is mails true record of whatever is general, important, and ascertained, in the living past of humanity. In order to measure the value of this definition let us first consider the widest possible meaning that can be attached to the term, the utmost reach and range of the realm of History. There is a record of the past of Humanity, an unblotted Book over whose register Truth keeps an eternal watch. Here are written all past deeds of men, all thoughts, all aspirations; the plans, the labors, the fruitions of the generations; the birth, education, struggles, and extinction of individuals dynasties, and races; all the past; yes, all, all, all. Here are sex down the secret forces that resulted in the Maelstrom of Barbarian invasion; or the more occult laws that guided prehistoric migrations, Aryan, Semitic, or Turanian. Here too the motive, light as dust in the balance, that turned the scale for good or evil in the characters of memorable or forgotten men, is printed with indelible types. 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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