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Description:Excerpt from The Life of a Citizen: At Home and in Foreign Service It has often been asserted that the life of any man is worth writing so long as it shall be written honestly, extenuating nothing and setting down nought in malice. It is still true that the proper study of mankind is man; we all need to know more about one another so that we can know more about ourselves. Of course, the lives best worth writing are those of the leaders, of those who have guided the state in moments of crisis or have helped to set forth the ideals that lift man above the beast and make human existence worth while. Unfortunately the men whose careers have been the fullest, the most interesting and the most significant, have not often cared to take their contemporaries into their confidence and to survey their own deeds dispassionately; nor have they always possessed the power to set down a plain tale or to tell the truth about themselves as well as about others. Bagehot once asserted the sole reason why so few good books were written was because the men who had done things and seen things could rarely write convincingly, whereas those who could write had rarely seen or done anything. Perhaps there is no need for us to insist on the high standard here suggested by the uncompromising British critic. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life of a Citizen: At Home and in Foreign Service (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Life of a Citizen: At Home and in Foreign Service (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Life of a Citizen: At Home and in Foreign Service It has often been asserted that the life of any man is worth writing so long as it shall be written honestly, extenuating nothing and setting down nought in malice. It is still true that the proper study of mankind is man; we all need to know more about one another so that we can know more about ourselves. Of course, the lives best worth writing are those of the leaders, of those who have guided the state in moments of crisis or have helped to set forth the ideals that lift man above the beast and make human existence worth while. Unfortunately the men whose careers have been the fullest, the most interesting and the most significant, have not often cared to take their contemporaries into their confidence and to survey their own deeds dispassionately; nor have they always possessed the power to set down a plain tale or to tell the truth about themselves as well as about others. Bagehot once asserted the sole reason why so few good books were written was because the men who had done things and seen things could rarely write convincingly, whereas those who could write had rarely seen or done anything. Perhaps there is no need for us to insist on the high standard here suggested by the uncompromising British critic. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life of a Citizen: At Home and in Foreign Service (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Life of a Citizen: At Home and in Foreign Service (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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