Author : Alphonse de Lamartine
Release : 2015-07-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Memoirs of Celebrated Characters, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by : Alphonse de Lamartine

Download or read book Memoirs of Celebrated Characters, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Alphonse de Lamartine. This book was released on 2015-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Celebrated Characters, Vol. 1 of 2 History is the legitimate repository of the records of the civil, religious, and moral condition of nations, at various periods of their existence. It is the written world, human nature in relief, evoked from its ashes, resuming soul, life, motion, and speech, before us and before posterity, and affording for our instruction a lesson and example for the future, in the eternal drama of humanity, represented in this vast arena, girt with tombs, of which the dust is the ashes of what once was man. History is the picture of human destiny, which memory presents, to excite, sometimes admiration and applause, at other times horror and aversion, according as virtue or crime, barbarism or civilization, are placed before us, but always with advantage to ourselves. In a word, history is to a nation what the faculty of memory is to individuals, the link of unity and continuity between our existence of yesterday and our existence of to-day; the basis of all our experience, and, by means of experience, the source of all improvement. Without history, then, there would be no social advancement, no progressive civilization, in a nation. With history, we scarcely need any other lesson, History knows all things, contains all things, teaches all things; not in winged words which strike the ear without impressing the mind, but in great and striking actions. 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.