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The following pages contain the substance of a short course of University Extension Lectures. Confined within such close limits of space, it is obvious that the aim of speaker or of writer must also be restricted. And the aim here has been rather to kindle interest than dogmatically to instruct rather to persuade to read much than to offer a substitute for much reading. The author has had frequent occasion to notice how a certain type of mind, by no means uncommon amongst the young, is repelled from historical reading as being dull, and in a sense arbitrary. And this feeling he has believed to be traceable to an inarticulate repugnance to what is felt to be the isolation of each historical fact. Occurrences which do not hang together might as well be separated by five hundred years as by five; and the personages in history who do not hang together are like the puppets in a Punch and Judy show, who deserve to be, and generally are, hanged separately. To learn by heart a list of battles and their dates can only be accepted as an unavoidable consequence of original sin. But once let human sympathy provide the thread, and the beads will be strung. Once persuadeS imon de Montfort to live again for us, and the triumph of Lewes and the fatal ruin of Evesham are no longer hard to remember.
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