A Lecture on the Study of History

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Commonplace Book
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Accessed on 2021/01/20 15:28:38

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        <ptr target="ukred-21099">Passages quoted in E. M. Forster"s Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton"s Lecture on the Study of History ("A speech of Antigone, a single sentence of Socrates [...] come nearer to our lives than the ancestral wisdom of barbarians who  fed their swine on the Hercynian acorns").

Forster responds with comment that "Lord Acton is right, but [...] He forgot that that most people do not respond to culture or intellectual honesty [...] he appears to this generation as an old man lecturung in a cap and gown," having also noted "This afternoon (29-2-40) I was at Bishops Cross, where new born lambs were dying in the cold, and Hughie Waterson, a Nazi by temperament, was trying to save them [...] Him the ancestral wisdom inspired."</ptr>
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