Seven Splendid Sinners

Author : W. R. H. Trowbridge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484803632
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Seven Splendid Sinners (Classic Reprint) written by W. R. H. Trowbridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seven Splendid Sinners The importance, not to speak of the interest, of the latter decreases in proportion to their distance from posterity till they are finally submerged in the ocean of time. To this sweeping assertion there is, of course, as usual, an excep tion, and certain epoch-making events in the history of mankind - a Renaissance, a Reformation, a Revolution, for instance - rear their crests above the waste of time, like those volcanic islands in tropic seas whose summits tower as high above the waves from which they rise as their bases are sunk beneath them. But with regard to individuals the opposite is the case. It has been said that the Muse of History has no politics on the contrary, she has belonged to every political party, from the Absolutists to the Republicans - save the Social ists. The faith of the latter, indeed, it is impossible for her to profess; in history the Individual is all in all. The dagger of Brutus, the eloquence of Antony, the corpse of Caesar, possess greater significance for us than all the influ ences that converted Rome from a republic into an empire. Apart from some examination paper or treatise by Herr Dryasdust of what account is the Agrarian Question, which once so deeply agitated the mistress of the world? Yet the Gracchi are deathless. Or coming quite near our own times, can there be any doubt as to the relative importance and interest between the march of events in France's stupendous struggle for freedom and the careers and char acters of the men and women who engaged in the front rank of that struggle? The mere names of Marie Antoinette, Mirabeau, Marat, Robespierre, Napoleon, speak more than whole volumes on the Revolution. For the memory of a personality, let it be stated again, endures longer than the memory of an epoch; a fact that all the greatest historians, both scientific and unscientific, have always recognized. 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.