Eminent Victorians Cardinal Victorian Manning Cardinal Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale, Arnold Gordon General (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning Dr. Arnold Florence Nightingale General Gordon

Rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into Obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean Of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths.

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Victorian A ge will never be written :we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art Concerning the A ge which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it. It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places ;he will fall upon the flank, or the rear ;he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity. Guided by these considerations, I have written the ensuing studies. I have attempted, through the medium of biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern eye. They are, in one sense, haphazard visions that is to say, my choice of subjects has been determined by no desire to construct a system or to prove a theory, but by simple motives of convenience and of art. It has been my purpose to illustrate rather than to explain.
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