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William Edward Hartpole Lecky. Historical and Political Essays
Historical and Political Essays
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HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS
THOUGHTS ON HISTORYToC
THE POLITICAL VALUE OF HISTORYToC
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THE EMPIRE: ITS VALUE AND ITS GROWTHToC
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IRELAND IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORYToC
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FORMATIVE INFLUENCESToC
CARLYLE'S MESSAGE TO HIS AGE.ToC
ISRAEL AMONG THE NATIONS[8]ToC
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MADAME DE STAËLToC
THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ROBERT PEELToC
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EDWARD HENRY, FIFTEENTH EARL OF DERBYToC
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HENRY REEVE, C.B., F.S.A., D.C.L.ToC
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HENRY HART MILMAN, D.D., DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S.ToC
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QUEEN VICTORIA AS A MORAL FORCEToC
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OLD-AGE PENSIONSToC
INDEX
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Published by Good Press, 2019
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I do not propose to follow the history of other ideals that have in turn prevailed. What I have written will, I trust, be sufficient to illustrate a kind of history which appears to me to possess much interest and value. It will show, too, that a faithful historian is very largely concerned with the fictions as well as with the facts of the past. Legends which have no firm historical basis are often of the highest historical value as reflecting the moral sentiments of their time. Nor do they merely reflect them. In some periods they contribute perhaps more than any other influence to mould and colour them and to give them an enduring strength. The facts of history have been largely governed by its fictions. Great events often acquire their full power over the human mind only when they have passed through the transfiguring medium of the imagination, and men as they were supposed to be have even sometimes exercised a wider influence than men as they actually were. Ideals ultimately rule the world, and each before it loses its ascendancy bequeaths some moral truth as an abiding legacy to the human race.
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