Excerpt from Translations and Reprints From the Original Sources of European History, Vol. 6 HE use by readers and students of those original documents from which our knowledge of history is so largely drawn has come to be valued in recent times at something like its true worth. The sequence of past events, the form and spirit of institutions, the characters of men, the prevailing habits of thought, obtain their greatest reality when we study them in the very words used by the men to whom the past was the living present. ...
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Excerpt from Translations and Reprints From the Original Sources of European History, Vol. 6 HE use by readers and students of those original documents from which our knowledge of history is so largely drawn has come to be valued in recent times at something like its true worth. The sequence of past events, the form and spirit of institutions, the characters of men, the prevailing habits of thought, obtain their greatest reality when we study them in the very words used by the men to whom the past was the living present. Even historians who have not been characterized by a close de pendence on the results of patient investigation of the sources have recog nized the superiority of an appeal to original testimony. Mr. Froude says, Whenever possible, let us not be told about this man or that. Let us hear the man himself speak, let us see him act, and let us be left to form our own Opinion about him. And in Stones of Venice, Mr. Ruskin writes, The only history worth reading is that written at the time of which it treats, the history of what was done and seen, heard out of the mouths of the men who did and saw. One fresh draught of such history is worth more than a thou sand volumes of abstracts, and reasonings, and suppositions and theories. Experience has proved, not only that the interest of students can be more readily obtained through the vividness of a direct and first-hand pre scutation, and that knowledge thus gained is more tangible and exact but that the critical judgment is developed in no slight degree, and the ability as well as the interest for further study thus secured. The utilization of the original sources of history has, however, been much restricted by their comparative inaccessibility. A great proportion of such documents as illustrate European history exist only in more or less nu familiar languages many are to be found only in large and expensive col lections, or in works that are out of print and therefore dificult to obtain or consult. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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