The Voice of History (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Voice of History Examination of this volume, even though it be not very thorough, will soon reveal its general scope. It is a collection of interesting chapters from some of the chief historians of our language, the importance of the matter and the quality of the style deciding the choice. If those who read it imbibe not only valuable and stimulating information, but also acquire a taste for good historical literature and a desire to investigate still further the story of the lives and deeds of nations in the past, the book is accomplishing its purpose. The editor and the publishers, while agreeing in a general way with the matter here presented, do not assume responsibility for every statement of the different historians. One guiding principle has been kept in view: to give prominence to the struggle of humanity for liberty and for true enlightenment against tyranny and superstition. In presenting extracts which describe the trend of the minds and spirits of our ancestors, we acknowledge to have been influenced by the opinion so forcibly expressed by one of the greatest English historians, Thomas Carlyle, in his essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson, where he saith: "Mournful, in truth, is it to behold what the business called 'history, ' in these so enlightened and illuminated times, still continues to be. Can you gather from it, read till your eyes go out, any dimmest shadow of an answer to that great question: How men lived and had their being, were it but economically, as, what wages they got, and what they bought with these? Unhappily you can not. History will throw no light on any such matter. 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.