The Novels Stories Sketches And Poems Of Thomas Nelson Page Volume 10

Author : Thomas Nelson Page
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458930484
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Novels, Stories, Sketches and Poems of Thomas Nelson Page written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GLIMPSES OF LIFE IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA FEW things relating to the South have been more misunderstood than its social life. Even the Southern people themselves have not generally had a very correct idea of its proportions. Owing to the astounding indifference of our people to the preservation of records; to the extraordinary environment in which they were placed; to the wonderful rapidity with which the country advanced in its development, ever pushing its confines further and further before the interior could be filled in, there are scarcely any written records of our life remaining extant. Few letters, journals, or accounts have been published or even preserved, and the records to which writers have gone for their materials are almost exclusively the impressions of temporary sojourners, who at one time or another have passed hastily through our borders, generally without either the opportunity or the capacity to form other than a hasty or prejudiced opinion. The Southern civilization was in its character as distinctive as was that of Greece, Carthage, Eome, or Venice. It has had no chronicler to tell its story in that spirit of sympathy from which alone can come the lights and shadings on which depend perspective and real truth. It deserves such a recorder, for it produced results the consequences of which may never cease. Among them is this nation. The social life of a people embraces their daily life in their homes, with all that relates to their social customs and intercourse. It is at once the occasion and the reflection of the character of the people. Whatever may throw light on these is relevant to the subject. It is, therefore, pertinent to investigate the causes which contributed to any distinctive form which that life may have taken, to show that peculi...