Historical Nuggets ... the Essence And Art of History
Historical Nuggets ... the Essence And Art of History
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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It was only after civil- ization had already made considerable prog- ress, after tribes of men had become united into large and stable political aggregates, and after the business of society had ac- quired a rather high degree of complexity, that individual men could achieve work of any sort on a sufficiently grand scale to ar- rest the attention of succeeding generations through thousands of years. Granting that some pre-Homeric hero may have had the native powers of a Hannibal, the fact that ...his achievements did not visibly affect great masses of society, but only the movements d by Google Import of Social Conditions. 97 of a few petty tribes, would be enough to prevent his fame surviving, save, perhaps, in some vague, half- intelligible legends about giants and demi-gods. But after the his- torical period, in the long career of nascent humanity, had fairly begun — after great societies had been formed, with generals and statesmen, poets and artists, and even phil- osophers—a long time had still to elapse before anything was heard of inventors of giant caliber and wonderful achievements like Arkwright and Watt.
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