This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxxi The character of Simon Fraser may be judged by either of two standards, the absolute or the relative. It must be acknowledged that in nearly all cases where judgment has been passed upon him, the relative standard has been ignored by his critics. The latter include modern writers of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxxi The character of Simon Fraser may be judged by either of two standards, the absolute or the relative. It must be acknowledged that in nearly all cases where judgment has been passed upon him, the relative standard has been ignored by his critics. The latter include modern writers of weight, who have not had the opportunity of examining the facts of his career with the care required for an impartial estimate of his character, or who have allowed themselves to be overweighted by the traditional view of the man. "History hardly recalls a baser figure than that of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat.... Seldom perhaps did a more horrible old man meet a more deserved doom."1 These quotations are probably not unfair examples of the strictures passed by historians upon Lovat. Generally, as in the instance cited, they are supported by statements of fact, the accuracy of which is in inverse ratio to the strength of the denunciation. Surely there is some lack of a sense of proportion in all this, which is not altogether creditable. The picture presented to readers is one of unrelieved blackness. One looks in vain for a solitary gleam of light. Simon Fraser, according to the accepted view of him, was not only a villain, but a villain without a single redeeming trait in his character. 1 McCarthy, History of the Four Georges, vol. ii. p. 305. "The desperate shuffler and paltry traitor who tried to blow hot and cold; to fawn on Hanover with one hand (sic), and to beckon the Stuarts with the other." So Lovat is described. It would require hardihood of which no one conversant with the facts of his career could be capable, to argue that the subject of this biography was a good man. He was neither a good man, nor, in the larger sense, a great one. But...
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