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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... contrary to the best exercise which they can make of their reason. We enter not here into the judgment of such men, their motives, or their understanding; but since they are confessedly lew in number, and since their sentiments, feelings, and opinions, must necessarily be so much in opposition to those of mankind in general, they should abstain from the task of the historian: a task, indeed, for which they are obviously unfit; since they cannot fairly appreciate motives which they have never felt, nor estimate the force of events which they are unable to comprehend. Some writers have imagined, that they could dexterously conceal the contempt which they felt for the religious opinions of their readers: and, indeed, it is not difficult for any impostor to delude the unthinking mass of mankind; but a slight degree of attention suffices to detect the cheat, and then he who has attempted to practise it, is exposed to the contempt he so richly merits. Gibbon felt, in the latter part of his life, the odium which he had incurred, by his disingenuous attacks on Christianity. It will occur to every one, that religion is too often mixed with superstition; and that superstition must tend to corrupt the purity of History, not only by the ignorance of the writer, but by his bad faith. When, therefore, we say, that an historian should be religious, we certainly do not mean to become the apologists of superstition. To draw the line between these two great influences of our moral nature, is, indeed, no easy task; and belongs not to our present undertaking. All that we are concerned to show is, that in the work of the historian a sense of religion should be distinctly visible; that it should be fairly and candidly set forth; that it should form a known and certain element ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150334023
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 84
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150334029
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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