This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of foreign policy, which can be even so much as intelligently appreciated without a considerable knowledge of history and political philosophy. It is impossible for the numerical majority, in any country, to comprehend, by their own wit and labour, the elements of those problems. They are like that eunuch of great ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of foreign policy, which can be even so much as intelligently appreciated without a considerable knowledge of history and political philosophy. It is impossible for the numerical majority, in any country, to comprehend, by their own wit and labour, the elements of those problems. They are like that eunuch of great authority under Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians, whom Philip the Deacon heard read in his chariot the Prophet Isaias, and asked, "Understandest thou what thou readest?" and he said, "How can I, except some man should guide me?" How indeed! But who shall guide the sovereign people to understand matters of State, beside which even the utterances of the evangelical prophet are plain and simple? The newspaper press undertakes that office. Our journals are the guides, philosophers, and friends of the masses, teaching them what they suppose themselves to think on well-nigh all subjects. For the great majority of men, I say, their newspapers--they seldom read anything else--arc the direct sources of those floating opinions which have drifted into their minds, whereby they judge all social and political problems. Our journalists have succeeded M to an important portion of the functions which in past days were discharged by the clergy. Now, the preacher is generally required to restrict his teaching to matters of religion. The pulpit has been obliged to resign to the press the instruction of the people in secular affairs. Mr. Carlyle well puts it: "The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of its Newspapers. These preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves, advising peace or war with an authority which only the first Reformers, and a long-past class of Popes were possessed of; inflicting...
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Good. First edition, 1890. Cloth hardcover, 284 pp., illustrated, a Good copy, pencil-notes to the text, a bit of straining to the front inner hinges, minor foxing to some pages of the text, soil or discoloration to the page-edges and to the cloth covers, rubbing and wear to the tips and edges of the cloth covers including some loss. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title. Uncommon.
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