Charing Cross to St. Paul´s (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Charing Cross to St. Paul´s We cannot at - least I cannot, to put it more modestly - reconstruct in mind the London of the far, very far past. I have set myself the task often, and laboriously tried to accomplish it, but it will not shape itself, that far-away, Roman London: it will not shape itself to my eyes or my mind. I cannot see the London with the cinctures of the great wall and the seven gates and the double doors to each gate. The historical suggestion conveys to my mind no manner of idea. I cannot get back to a Roman London - a fortress London; I can hardly believe in it. But lest any one should take my words too literally, and should assume me to be guilty of an absurd scepticism which ought to be instantly confuted by the citation of overwhelming evidence from history, I hasten to explain that I am not really sceptical in that sense. I have not the smallest doubt about the existence of the Roman London; I only mean to say that I cannot believe in it in the sense of realising it and understanding what it would be to live in it. I have a friend who only cares about romances and novels which tell of the time with which he is familiar; he will not condescend to read even the finest story of the chivalric age. ´I don´t believe in a man in armour,´ he says. Now my friend is, apart from this curious self-accepted limitation to his reading, a well-read man; he is perfectly well aware that in olden days knights went to battle encased in steel; I have no doubt he could, if need were, favour any company with a dissertation on the various kinds of armour in which men of different chivalric orders and ages bedizened and defended themselves. But his imagination does not realise the mail-clad hero as a living creature, as a man and a brother with a soul to be saved, and a heart to be perplexed and betossed, and in that sense he does not believe in the man in armour. In that sense, and that sense only, I fail to put faith in Roman London. It lives for history; it does not live for me. I have somewhat of a similar notion with regard to Rome - a notion which I fancy I share with most people, even with some scholarly persons, if they would only acknowledge it. I cannot reconstruct in my own mind the Rome of the Republican days. In vain I read and study and survey the ground itself; no Rome rises for me but Imperial Rome - the Rome of the Caesars - the Rome of the Empire, or at all events, the Rome of those days which were blossoming or decaying into empire - the Rome of the first and greatest Imperator. 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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