Factors in Modern History (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Factors in Modern History Whatever I may hope to say or to do in the ensuing lectures, one thing at least I shall not attempt, and that is, to give you a history of England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centu ries. An effort of that kind would simply result in the perpetration of yet another of those miserable text-books of English history, which may be meces sary but are certainly evil, which prefer knowledge to understanding, and seem expressly designed to nip the bud of historical interest and to clip the wings of historical imagination. It is almost a miracle that any incipient students of history survive this crushing ordeal: if they do, it must be due to the inspiration of the living voice, and no teacher of history worth the name relies upon the compilations which the examination-system compels him to in¿ict upon his class. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.