The Great Historians of Ancient Modern Times Their Genius Style Surrounding
The Great Historians of Ancient Modern Times Their Genius Style Surrounding
Albert Jordan
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The book, however, was considered as the making of an epoch in government. Montesquieu must be held the greatest Frenchman in literature of the eighteenth century. When a nobleman of considerable fortune leaves his castle and family estate, and takes to travel in order that he may investigate nature, and is so consumed with passion for working out a new scheme 92 THE GREAT HISTORIANS of literature, that he spends twenty laborious years in elaborating a philosophical work, which weighs the merit...s of all the different forms of government, and investigates and analyzes the characteristics of the people, the conditions under which they live, the climate of the countries in which they dwell, the traditions of the past which sculp- tures its impress upon the national mind, and forges a stamp of thought, and mode of action ; and, then from these premises shows to us the laws which emanate from these data, we are called upon to respect and even venerate a historian who can have no selfish motive, no partisan spirit, which instinctively sets to work to whitewash one side and blacken the other.
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