The Lessons of HistorySimon and Schuster, 1968 - 117 páginas In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization. The result is a survey of human history, full of dazzling insights into the nature of human experience, the evolution of civilization, the culture of man. With the completion of their life's work they look back and ask what history has to say about the nature, the conduct and the prospects of man, seeking in the great lives, the great ideas, the great events of the past for the meaning of man's long journey through war, conquest and creation - and for the great themes that can help us to understand our own era.To the Durants, history is not merely a warning reminder of man's follies and crimes, but also an encouraging remembrance of generative souls ... a spacious country of the mind wherein a thousand saints, statesman, inventors, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, lovers, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing...Designed to accompany the ten-volume set of The Story of Civilization, The Lessons of History is, in its own right, a profound and original work of history and philosophy. |
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... Aristocracy withdraws a few men from the exhaust- ing and coarsening strife of economic competition , and trains them from birth , through example , surroundings , and minor office , for the tasks of government ; these tasks require a ...
... Aristocracy withdraws a few men from the exhaust- ing and coarsening strife of economic competition , and trains them from birth , through example , surroundings , and minor office , for the tasks of government ; these tasks require a ...
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... aristocracy did not save it when it monopolized privilege and power too narrowly , when it oppressed the people with selfish and myopic exploitation , when it retarded the growth of the nation by a blind addiction to ancestral ways ...
... aristocracy did not save it when it monopolized privilege and power too narrowly , when it oppressed the people with selfish and myopic exploitation , when it retarded the growth of the nation by a blind addiction to ancestral ways ...
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... aristocracy and the upper bourgeoisie ; and the democratic - small landowners and * See Taine's unforgettable description in The French Revolution ( New York , 1931 ) , II , 209-33 . small businessmen , and citizens who had lapsed into ...
... aristocracy and the upper bourgeoisie ; and the democratic - small landowners and * See Taine's unforgettable description in The French Revolution ( New York , 1931 ) , II , 209-33 . small businessmen , and citizens who had lapsed into ...
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PREFACE | 7 |
Hesitations I I | 11 |
History and the Earth | 14 |
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