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Eminent Victorians, EPUB eBook

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pubOne.info present you this new edition. 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.

It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch.

If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined.

He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity

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