Historical and Political Essays (Classic Reprint) Hardcover -

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Excerpt from Historical and Political Essays When Mr. Lecky had finished his last work, The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, ' he did not intend to write another long book. His health was broken he had said most of what he wished to say. But he proposed collect ing in a volume a few Essays which he had written at different times. As concentration was to him one of the first conditions of good work, he did not often allow his attention to be diverted from the book he was writing by giving addresses or contributing articles to reviews or magazines, unless he had some special reason for doing so. The number is, therefore, small. E began revising them; and made some additions to Thoughts on istory, ' 'the Empire, ' 'the Memoir of the Fifteenth Earl of Derby, ' Queen Victoria as a Moral Force but he unfortunately did not live to complete the revision of the others. In publishing this volume I have endeavoured to carry out his intentions. Besides the Essays which he had revised, I have included all that seemed to me to possess a permanent value. Even though some of them deal with questions of the day, the philosophic spirit in which they are treated may give them more than a transitory interest, and the forcible arguments that are adduced may still have weight in the future. 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.