Essays and Lectures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421807836)

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - HISTORICAL criticism nowhere occurs as an isolated fact in the civilisation or literature of any people. It is part of that complex working towards freedom which may be described as the revolt against authority. It is merely one facet of that speculative spirit of an innovation, which in the sphere of action produces democracy and revolution, and in that of thought is the parent of philosophy and physical science; and its importance as a factor of progress is based not so much on the results it attains, as on the tone of thought which it represents, and the method by which it works. Being thus the resultant of forces essentially revolu-tionary, it is not to be found in the ancient world among the material despotisms of Asia or the stationary civilisation of Egypt. The clay cylinders of Assyria and Babylon, the hieroglyphics of the pyramids, form not history but the material for history.

Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN-10: 1421807831
ISBN-13: 9781421807836
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2005
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d