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History as Literature: And Other Essays (Classic Reprint)
History as Literature And Other Essays - Classic Reprint Author:Theodore Roosevelt HISTORY AS LITERATURE1 HERE has been much discussion as to whether history should not henceforth be treated as a branch of science rather than of literature. As with most such discussions, much of the matter in dispute has referred merely to terminology. Moreover, as regards part of the discussion, the minds of the contestants have not met, the ... more »propositions advanced by the two sides being neither mutually incompatible nor mutually relevant. There is, however, a real basis for conflict in so far as science claims exclusive possession of the field. There was a time-we see it in the marvellous dawn of Hellenic life-when history was distinguished neither from poetry, from mythology > nor from the first dim beginnings of science. There was a more recent time, at the opening of Rome's brief period of literary splendor, when poetry was accepted by a great scientific philosopher as the appropriate vehicle for teaching the lessons of science and philosophy. There was a more recent 1 Annu
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CONTENTS; PAGE; History as Literature i; Biological Analogies in History 37; The World Movement 95; Citizenship in a Republic 135; The Thraldom of Names 175; Productive Scholarship 195; Dante and the Bowery 217; The Foundations of the Nineteenth; Century 231; The Search for Truth in a Reverent; Spirit 245; The Ancient Irish Sagas 275; An Art Exhibition 301; Three chapters, "Biological Analogies in History," "The World Movement," and "Citizenship in a Republic," were included in the volume entitled "African and European Addresses"
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