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Historical Society of Southern California, Vol. 10 : 1915-1916 (Classic Reprint) download PDF, EPUB, Kindle

Historical Society of Southern California, Vol. 10 : 1915-1916 (Classic Reprint) download PDF, EPUB, Kindle

Historical Society of Southern California, Vol. 10 : 1915-1916 (Classic Reprint) by Historical Society of Southe California

Historical Society of Southern California, Vol. 10 : 1915-1916 (Classic Reprint)
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Author: Historical Society of Southe California
Page Count: 332 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781331673729
Download Link: Historical Society of Southern California, Vol. 10 1915-1916 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Historical Society of Southern California, Vol. 10: 1915-1916 It is my pleasant task to bring to your attention and urge upon your consideration a branch of human study - department of knowledge - which while not highly conducive to material ends, is yet most highly practical in its nature and admirably suited to widen, deepen and project the life. The subject is History. And first of all, let us endeavor, with such care as we may in a few moments, to reach a just conception of history: for on the answer to the oft-recurring question, what is history? obviously depend its real importance and value. The original Greek conception of historia was that of research, or investigation. Not the rigidly scientific method of research employed by historical critics today, but an investigation into and a setting forth of the great deeds of illustrious men, often with distinct bias. "Show me," Savage Landor makes one of his heroes say, "how great projects were executed, great advantages gained, and great calamities averted. Show me the generals and the statesmen who stood foremost, that I may bend to them in reverence. Let the books of the treasury lie closed as religiously as the Sibyls. Leave weights and measures in the market place; commerce in the harbor; the arts in the lights they love; philosophy in the shade. Place History on her rightful throne, and at the sides of her - Eloquence and War." The Greeks "did not regard history as the simple narration of what had happened in the past, but rather (to use the words of Professor H. Morse Stephens) as a certain arrangement of a narrative of events so as to bring out certain ideas." Some of the most conspicuous merits of Herodotus, as his simplicity and credulous good faith, would today, I fear, go far to condemn a writer in the eyes of historical criticism. It would be a doubtful compliment to a diligent historian to tell him he is a capital story teller. So Thucydides, the first of the philosophic historians, owes his brilliancy not so much to an accurate and impartial account of the age of which he wrote as to the faultlessly constructed speeches he put into his characters mouths, but which in truth they never delivered. 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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