The Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

I wish in this first lecture to give you some general conception of the causes which urged our Teutonic race to attack and destroy Rome. I shall take for this one lecture no special text-book: but suppose you all to be acquainted with the Germania of Tacitus, and with the 9th Chapter of Gibbon. And I shall begin, if you will allow me, by a parable, a myth, a saga, such as the men of whom I am going to tell you loved; and if it seem to any of you childish, bear in mind that what is childish need not therefore be shallow. I know that it is not history. These lectures will not be, in the popular sense, history at all. But I beg you to bear in mind that I am not here to teach you history. No man can do that. I am here to teach you how to teach yourselves history. I will give you the scaffolding as well as I can; you must build the house.

• АвторCharles Kingsley
• ВидавництвоProject Gutenberg
• Рік видання2003 р.
• Оригінальна назваThe Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge
• Тип книгиЕлектронна книга