The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, Vol. 1: A Series of Original Memoirs of Distinguished Men, of All Ages and All Nations (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography<br/><br/>Literature can offer to mankind. If the one presents us with the great drama of humanity in its entire action and full development, the other furnishes us with the innumerable and subordinate dramas of all the prominent actors on the world's stage. It is often only in the lives of individuals that we discover the secret springs and hidden causes of those mighty events which advance or retard the progress of man  which in?uence his destiny and revolutionize the world and thus the rays of light emitted from individual Biography converge upon the page of History, and enable us to read it more clearly. We do not deem any apology necessary for the appearance of a new English biographical work at the present moment. The subjects for Biography are ever increasing, but at no period has that increase been more rapid or important than now. Whatever stimulates the energies of an age, makes it fruitful in events and multiplies its actors. Sciences and arts are moving with an accelerated pace, and new discoveries and inventions are daily making their authors notable. Great political in?uences have, within a recent period, passed over the world, and are still agitating it. The wars in Europe and Asia, especially in the Crimea and India, have produced great men as suddenly as the exigencies that required them.

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