The greatest story in the world, period 3 (of 3) : $b The development of the modern worldHutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon)
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The greatest story in the world, period 3 (of 3) : $b The development of the modern world
Hutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon)
World history
The "Greatest Story" is here taken up at the point at which it was
left in the first volume; that is, about the year 100 A.D.
Throughout that first volume our land of Britain scarcely had a
place. In the latter part of the period--100 A.D.-1500 A.D.--which
this second volume covers, men of Britain played a great role. The
World story thus becomes, in some measure, England's also. Moreover,
where there have seemed to be two or more ways open for the telling
of the story, the author has always tried to adopt what he calls the
English way, the way which seemed likely to bring it most warmly and
intimately to English hearts and minds. He has tried to adapt it for
scholars perhaps a year or so older than for those for whom the first
volume was written.
Vol. III--The Development of the Modern World. With Illustrations.
3_s._ 6_d._
This third and final volume deals with the period which must appeal
more forcibly than any earlier time to all of Anglo-Saxon race.
The author, in his preface, explains how his work has been inspired
by Green's famous statement--that "England is only a small part of
the outcome of English history. Its greater issues lie, not within
the narrow limits of the mother island, but in the destinies of
nations yet to be. The struggles of her patriots, the wisdom of her
statesmen, the steady love of liberty and law in her people at large,
were shaping in the past of our little island the future of mankind."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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