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Men and Deeds
Author: John Buchan

MEN AND DEEDS BY JOHN BUCHAN LONDON PETER DAVIES PREFACE OF the papers in this collection, the first was the Rede Lecture at Cambridge in the autumn of 1929. The second appeared as a volume in Mr. Peter Davies Series of Short Biographies, the third and fourth as volumes in the same publishers Series of Great Occasions. The fifth was the Walker L... more »ecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews in January 1932. The sixth is from the Proceedings of the British Academy. The seventh is a chapter from a little book published by Messrs Hodder and Stoughton, and written in collaboration - with Sir George Adam Smith at the request of the Church of Scotland to commemorate the Union of 1929. I would offer my thanks to the different authorities concerned for their permission to reprint. J. B. August 1935. CONTENTS I. THE CAUSAL AND THE CASUAL IN HISTORY . . i II. JULIUS CAESAR I. THE REPUBLIC IN DECAY . . . . . .25 II. THE FORERUNNERS . . . . . . - 32 III. THE YOUTH OF CAESAR ... ... 38 IV. THE PARTY GAME ....... 42 V. THE FIRST CONSULSHIP ...... 56 VI. THE CONQUEST OF GAUL ...... 60 VII. THE REVOLT OF GAUL ...... 70 VIII. THE RUBICON ........ 77 IX. THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD ..... 84 X. FACTS AND VISIONS ... .... 92 XI. THE END ......... IOI BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . 1 04 III. THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE I. THE FORT OF INVERLOCHY ICX II. INVERARAY AND EDINBURGH . . . . - 125 HI. KENSINGTON 13 IV. GLENCOE 146 V. THE THIRTEENTH OF FEBRUARY . . . . - 157 VI. THE RECKONING . . . . . . . 1 68 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . .176 ViJ I THE CAUSAL AND THE CASUAL IN HISTORY A VISITOR to Cambridge from the sister University, especially a visitor on such an errand as mine, is not likely to be forgetful of the special genius of the place. He remembers that for some centuries Cambridge has been the chosen home of the natural sciences that, while keeping a shrewd eye upon practical appli cations, she has not allowed the lure of immediate rewards to divert her from the quest of truth and that one of her traditional toasts has been God bless the higher mathematics and may they never be of the slightest use to anybody. Here, if anywhere on the globe, he may expect to find a proper notion of what constitutes a science. He will also, if he have historical interests, remember that within recent years Cambridge has been fruitful in pronouncements on the meaning of history. In 1903 Professor Bury proclaimed History is a science no less and no more while it has been the happy task of your present Regius Professor to emphasise the other side of the truth that Clio is a Muse, the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and the mother of Orpheus. I propose, with Cambridges scientific fame in my mind, and with these sayings of two of her most eminent historians to guide me, to make some further observations on the Muse of History. She is a lady of many parts. She has her laboratory, no doubt, and her record office she has, beyond question, her lyre and her singing robes. But the character in which I would exhibit her this afternoon is homelier than these. I can picture Clio with knitted brows, striving to disentangle the why and the where fore of things. I can picture her with rapt eyes, making epic and djama out of the past. But I can picture her most easily with the puzzled and curious face of a child, staring at the kaleidoscope of the centuries, and laughing yes, laughing at an inconse quence that defies logic, and whimsicalities too fantastic for art. j MEN AND DEEDS Let me begin by making concessions to every school. History is an art, and it is also a science we may say that it is an art which is always trying to become more of a science. As a science it is concerned with causation. The past, if it is to satisfy in telligent minds, must be presented as a sequence of effects and causes. History is not content with an accumulation of facts it seeks to establish relations between facts...

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