Eminent Victorians (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781514229170)

THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it.

Author: Lytton Strachey
ISBN-10: 151422917X
ISBN-13: 9781514229170
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2015
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d