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Excerpt from Daniel Trentworthy: A Tale of the Great Fire of Chicago
Human history must deal with human interest. Events thought to be unimportant in their day may tower up with the ages - as the death of Shakespeare. Events great as a royal marriage may be buried as deeply in a library as they could be inhumed in oblivion; for what is oblivion but lack of interest by the living All is for the living; nothing for the dead.
Let us then deal candidly with events, subjectively as to their merits, objectively as to the interest they arouse, at once and forever. By that means we may perhaps claim that in three centuries there have been but three events in the first class of human interest - namely.
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Human history must deal with human interest. Events thought to be unimportant in their day may tower up with the ages - as the death of Shakespeare. Events great as a royal marriage may be buried as deeply in a library as they could be inhumed in oblivion; for what is oblivion but lack of interest by the living All is for the living; nothing for the dead.
Let us then deal candidly with events, subjectively as to their merits, objectively as to the interest they arouse, at once and forever. By that means we may perhaps claim that in three centuries there have been but three events in the first class of human interest - namely.
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.
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Language - English
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John McGovern
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ISBN - 9780483202412
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Page Count - 296
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John McGovern
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ISBN - 9781330769836
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Page Count - 298
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