Description: Great institutions are the shadows that great men cast across the centuries. A great law, a great liberty, a great art or tool or reform represents a great soul, organized, and made unconsciously immortal for all time. Explorers trace the Nile or Amazon back to the lake in which the river takes its rise. Historians trace institutions back to some hero from whose mind and heart the life-giving movement pours forth. When the scholar travels back to the far-off beginnings of jurisprudence, he comes to some Moses, toiling in Thebes, to some Solon in Athens, to some Justinian in Rome. Not otherwise the renaissance of painting, sculpture, and architecture begins with some Giotto, some Michael Angelo, some Christopher Wren. Scholars often speak of history as narratory or philosophical, but in the last analysis, history is biographical. These studies were prepared for the students of Plymouth Institute in the belief that biography is life's wisest teacher, and that the lives of great men are the most inspiring books to be found in our libraries.(The above from the author's Foreword) For book condition, please see photos. This book is 102 years old. For contents, see photos.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
Subject: Dante to john Ruskin
Year Printed: 1922
Original/Facsimile: Original
California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
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Special Attributes: Copyright 1922
Author: Newell Dwight Hillis
Personalized: No
Region: Europe
Topic: Historical Biography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
Character Family: Intellectual Giants of Western Thought
