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- Author: Lytton Strachey
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 151422917X
- ISBN-13: 9781514229170
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it.
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- Author: Lytton Strachey
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 151422917X
- ISBN-13: 9781514229170
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it.
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