Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
It would need an essay, or rather a volume, on the French Revolution to enumerate all the wrong judgments and fallacies of Carlyle's book, if we bring it to the bar of sober and authentic history. First and foremost comes his fundamental misconception that the Revolution was a...
Macaulay left us, with their hard and fast divisions of men into sheep and goats, and minute biographies of fops, pedants, and grandees, narrated in the same resonant, rhetorica...
2. Chapter 2Gifted"? What truth, what force in the aphorism:--"To predict the Future, to manage the Present, would not be so impossible, had not the Past been so sacrilegiously mishandled;...
1. Chapter 1It would need an essay, or rather a volume, on the French Revolution to enumerate all the wrong judgments and fallacies of Carlyle's book, if we bring it to the bar of sober and...