The Roman The Teuton

Author : Charles Kingsley
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ISBN 13 : 9781332889150
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book The Roman and the Teuton written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge Jshall develop into manhood, action, success. And in what that same strength consists, not even the dramatic imagination of a Shakespeare could dis cover. What are those heart-rending sonnets of his, but the confession that over and above all his powers he lacked one thing, and knew not what it was, or where to find it - and that was - to be strong? And yet he who will give us a science of great men, must begin by having a larger heart, a keener insight, a more varying human experience, than Shakespeare's own; while those who offer us a science of little men, and attempt to explain history and progress by laws drawn from the average of mankind, are utterly at sea the moment they come in contact with the very men whose actions make the history, to whose thought the progress is due. And why? Because (so at least I think) the new science of little men can be no science at all: because the average man is not the normal man, and never yet has been; because the great man is rather the normal as approaching more nearly than his fellows to the true 'norma' and standard of a complete human character; and therefore to pass him by as a mere irregular sport of nature, an accidental giant with Six fingers and six toes, and to turn to the mob for your theory of humanity, is (i think) about as wise as to ignore the Apollo and the Theseus, and to determine the proportions of the human figure from a crowd of dwarfs and cripples. 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.