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The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge (Classic Reprint)
The Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Kingsley THE LIMITS OF EXACT SCIENCE AS APPLIED TO HISTORY. It is with a feeling of awe, I had almost said of fear, that I find myself in this place, upon this errand. The responsibility of a teacher of History in Cambridge is in itself very heavy: but doubly heavy in the case of one who sees among his audience many men as fit, it may be some more fit, t... more »o fill this Chair: and again, more heavy still, when one succeeds to a man whose learning, like his virtues, one can never hope to equal. ' But a Professor, I trust, is like other men, capable of improvement; and the great law, ' do-cendo disces,' may be fulfilled in him, as in other men. Meanwhile, I can only promise that such small powers as I possess will be honestly devoted to this Professorate; and that I shall endeavour to teach Modern History after a method which shall give satisfaction to the Rulers of this University. I shall do that best, I believe, by keeping in mind the lessons which I, in common with
Table of Contents
LECTURE; inaugural lecture i the forest children ii the dying- empire; preface to lecture iii iil the human deluge iv the gothic civilizer v dietrich's end vi the nemesis of the goths vii paueus diaconus viii the clergy and the heathen ix the monk a civilizer x the lombard laws xi the popes and the lombards xii the strategy of providence
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