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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... citizens who had seen their savings consumed in the taxes and inflation caused by war ; . . . women dizzy with freedom , multiplying divorces , abortions , and adulteries . . . . A shallow so- phistication prided itself upon its ...
... citizens who had seen their savings consumed in the taxes and inflation caused by war ; . . . women dizzy with freedom , multiplying divorces , abortions , and adulteries . . . . A shallow so- phistication prided itself upon its ...
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... citizens with the right to vote.55 Women , nearly all working- men , nearly all shopkeepers and tradesmen , and all resident aliens were excluded from the franchise . The citizen minority was divided into two factions : the oligarchic ...
... citizens with the right to vote.55 Women , nearly all working- men , nearly all shopkeepers and tradesmen , and all resident aliens were excluded from the franchise . The citizen minority was divided into two factions : the oligarchic ...
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... citizens chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority , and at length . . . they cease to care even for the laws , written or unwritten . . . . And this is the fair and glorious beginning out of which springs dictatorship ...
... citizens chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority , and at length . . . they cease to care even for the laws , written or unwritten . . . . And this is the fair and glorious beginning out of which springs dictatorship ...
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PREFACE | 7 |
Hesitations I | 11 |
History and the Earth | 14 |
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