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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Excerpt: ... plaining historical events is shown better than any other way by the authors of universal histories and histories of civilization, who affect to renounce the idea of power, and yet, inevitably, at every step, make use of it. Historical science, at the present time, in its relation to the questions of humanity, is like money in circulation, -- bank-notes and coin. Biographies and the ordinary histories of nations are like bank-notes. They may pass and circulate, satisfying their denomination without injury to any one, and even be of service as long as the question does not arise whether their value is assured. If only we forget the question how the will of heroes brings about events, the histories of the Thierses will be interesting, instructive, and, moreover, will have a touch of poetry. But, just as doubt with regard to the actual value of bank-notes arises either from the fact that, since it is so -asy to make them, many of them are made, or because chere is a general desire to exchange them for gold, in exactly the same way doubt concerning the actual significance of historical works of this sort arises from the fact that they are too numerous, or because some one, in the simplicity of his heart, asks, "By what force was Napoleon able to do this?" In other words, wishes to have his bank-notes exchanged for the pure gold of the genuine concept. General historians and the historians of culture are like men who, recognizing the inconvenience of assignats, should resolve, in place of paper, to make coin out of some metal which had not the density of gold. And their money would actually have the ring of metal, but only the ring. Paper notes may deceive the ignorant, but coin which is spurious can deceive no one. Now, as gold is only gold when it can be used, not merely for excha...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154335460 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154335461 |
| Weight | 1.17 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 In |
| List Price | $28.48 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 362 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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