What Does History Teach?
What Does History Teach?

What Does History Teach?

What Does History Teach? - Two Edinburgh Lectures The following Lectures were prepared for the Philosophical Institution...
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What Does History Teach?

What Does History Teach?

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What Does History Teach?

What Does History Teach?

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Author: Blackie, John Stuart,1809-1895
Format: eBook
Language: English
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What Does History Teach? - Two Edinburgh Lectures

The following Lectures were prepared for the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, and were delivered, with the exception of a few passages, before audiences consisting of Members of that Institution on the evenings of 8th and 11th December in the present year. History, whether founded on reliable record, or on monuments, or on the scientific analysis of the great fossil tradition called language, knows nothing of the earliest beginnings. The seed of human society, like the seed of the vegetable growth, lies under ground in darkness, and its earliest processes are invisible to the outward eye. Speculations about the descent of the primeval man from a monkey, of the primeval monkey from an ascidian, and of the primeval ascidian from a protoplastic bubble, though they may act as a potent stimulus to the biological research of the hour, certainly never can form the starting-point of a profitable philosophy of history. As revealed in history, man is an animal, not only generically different from, but characteristically antagonistic to the brute. That which makes him a man is precisely that which no brute possesses, or can by any process of training be made to possess. The man can no more be developed out of the brute than the purple heather out of the granite rock which it clothes. The relation of the one to the other is a relation of mere outward attachment or dependencylike the relation which exists between the painters easel and the picture which is painted on it. The easel is essential to the picture, but it did not make the picture, nor give even the smallest hint towards the making of it. So the monkey, as a basis, may be essential to the man without being in any way participant of the divine indwelling which makes a man a man. The two are related only as all things are related, inasmuch as they are all shot forth from the great fountain-head of all vital forces, whom we justly call God. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 55354
Author: Blackie, John Stuart
Release Date: Aug 14, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English

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