Christendom Anno Domini MDCCCCI ... A Presentation of Christian Conditions and Activities in Every Country of the World at the Beginning of the ... Than Sixty Competent Contributors Volume 1 - Couverture rigide

Grant, William Daniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 134502181X ISBN 13 : 9781345021813

Editeur : Arkose Press, 2015

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Many years ago, Mr. James Anthony Froude, speaking at the Royal Institution upon the Science of History, affirmed: It often seems to me as if history was like a childs box of letters, with which we can spell any word we please. We have only to pick out such letters as we want and say nothing about those which do not suit our purpose. In the same vein Goethe makes Faust reply to the student who was growing enthusiastic about the spirit of past ages: My friend, the times which are gone are a book with seven seals; and what you call the spirit of past ages is but the spirit of this or that worthy gentleman in whose mind those ages are reflected. These pessimistic estimates of the degree in which history is colored by the subjectivity of the historian are not incapable of verification. From time to time the historian appears to dwell in the shadow of his own prejudices, or unconsciously to interpret fact in the interest of theory. Nevertheless, none will deny the value of history, nor vithhold gratitude from the narrator who sets forth in order the annals of the past. To estimate the relative strength of present day forces is even more difficult than to record truthfully the events of yesterday. Many elements contribute to this difficulty. -N ot the least of them is lack of perspective. The observer is immersed in his own foregrounds. He is a part of that he would describe. He cannot separate himself adequately from the object of his study, nor regard contemporary conditions with the judicial temper of the historian. Moreover, into the problem enters the element of limitation in the point of view. The annalist of the past is as one standing upon a great height; he commands the landscape in the large relation of its parts. Rational co-ordination at least is possible.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arkose Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 134502181X
• ISBN 13: 9781345021813
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 662
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible