The Battle of the Books in Its Historical Setting (Classic Reprint)
Author: Anne Elizabeth Burlingame
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-18
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780364902301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Battle of the Books in Its Historical Setting During nearly the whole Of man's career on the earth the Old and the True have been regarded as one and the same thing. Only a great revolution in his afiairs could convince him that the New is likely to be the True. This revolution has been in prog ress for three hundred years at least. It is due to the application of new knowledge to human activity, to the palpable alteration which we see going on about us Of human aims and methods, and of the relations Of men to one another. We live in the most flagrantly changeful age the world has ever seen, and the current innovations seem to be but harbingers Of far greater and more bewildering novelties still ahead. Thus accommodation has be come our very particular Obligation, and in order to meet this Obligation we must cultivate a flexibility of mind and mental agility and suppleness Of an alto gether different order from that of our predecessors. 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.