Thebaud, Augustus J.:Ireland - Past and Present
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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Duey Press, 596 Seiten, L=216mm, B=140mm, H=34mm, Gew.=748gr, [GR: 25520 - TB/Geschichte/Allgemeines/Lexika], [SW: - History - G… Mehr…
Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Duey Press, 596 Seiten, L=216mm, B=140mm, H=34mm, Gew.=748gr, [GR: 25520 - TB/Geschichte/Allgemeines/Lexika], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: IRELAND PAST AND PRESENT WITH A SUILE - PRIESTS SACRIFICING Frolatisjiece. lreCanr U JN J T U EI E I I X AISTII i E n, h is Princiye C hnhratenr dee onstitutions Politiques Par. LSi., says All nations manitest a. particular an4 distinctive character, wliicil deserves to be attentively considered. This thouglght of the great Catholic writer requires some I lereiop nent. It is 11ot by a snccession of periods of progress and decay only tlmt nations manifest their life and individaality. Taking nnr one of tliem at any period of its existence, and comparing it wit. 1 otllers. peculiarities imlrlediatcly show themselves which give it I physiognomy whereby it m ly be at once distinguished frotn any other so that, in those a alomerations ot Inon which rve call nations or racer, we see 8 variety everywhere observable in Nature, the variety by which God manifests the infinite activity of his creative power. When me take two extreme types of the Ilnlnaii speciefi-the Ashantee of Guinea, for instance, and any individnal of one of tile great civilized communities of Enrope-the phenomenon of mllich me speali strikes us at once. Brit it may be remarked also, in compal ing nations which have lived for ages in contignity, and held constant intercourse one with the other fro111 the time they began their national life, whose only boundaryline has been a mountain-chain or the banks of a broad river. h e y have each striking pec zlial. ities which i dividualizaen d stam them with 8 character of their own. W different am the peoples divided by the Rhine or by the Pyrenees How unlike those which the Straits of Dover run between And in Asia, what have the conterminous Chinese and Hindoos in common beyond thewenera1 characteristics of the human species which belong to all t e children of Adam P But what we must chieflyinsist 11po11 in the investigation we nre now undertaking is, that the life of each is manifested hv a special physiognomy deeply imprinted in their whole history, which we liere call charactw. What each of them is their histor shows and there is no better liieans of judging of them than b j reviewin the various events which compose tlieir For t e various events whish go to form twliehiar t liifse . called the history of a nation are its individual actions, the spontaneous energy of its life and, as a man shows what he is by his acts, so does a nation or a race by the facts cf its history. When we compare the vast despotisms of Asia, crystallizecl into forms whidl have scarcely clinngcd since the first settlement of man in those immense plains, with the active and ever-moving smdler groups of Europeans settled in the west of the Old World since the dispersion of mankind, we see at a glance how the characters of both may be read in their respective angels. And, comin down gradually to less extreme cases, we recognize the same p t enomcnon manifested even in contiguous tribes, sprin ing long ago, . perhaps, from the same stock, but which have been B o rmed into distinct nations by distinct ancestors, although they acBnowledge a common origin. The antagonism in their character is immediately brought out by what historians or annalists have to say of them. Are not the cruelty and rapacity of the old Scandinavian race still visible in their descendants 1 And the spirit of organization displayed by them from the beginning in the seizure, survey... IRELAND PAST AND PRESENT WITH A SUILE - PRIESTS SACRIFICING Frolatisjiece. lreCanr U JN J T U EI E I I X AISTII i E n, h is Princiye C hnhratenr dee onstitutions Politiques Par. LSi., says All nations manitest a. particular an4 distinctive character, wliicil deserves to be attentively considered. This thouglght of the great Catholic writer requires some I lereiop nent. It is 11ot by a snccession of periods of progress and decay only tlmt nations manifest their life and individaality. Taking nnr one of tliem at any period of its existence, and comparing it wit. 1 otllers. peculiarities imlrlediatcly show themselves which give it I physiognomy whereby it m ly be at once distinguished frotn any other so that, in those a alomerations ot Inon which rve call nations or racer, we see 8 variety everywhere observable in Nature, the variety by which God manifests the infinite activity of his creative power. When me take two extreme types of the Ilnlnaii speciefi-the Ashantee of Guinea, for instance, and any individnal of one of tile great civilized communities of Enrope-the phenomenon of mllich me speali strikes us at once. Brit it may be remarked also, in compal ing nations which have lived for ages in contignity, and held constant intercourse one with the other fro111 the time they began their national life, whose only boundaryline has been a mountain-chain or the banks of a broad river. h e y have each striking pec zlial. ities which i dividualizaen d stam them with 8 character of their own. W different am the peoples divided by the Rhine or by the Pyrenees How unlike those which the Straits of Dover run between And in Asia, what have the conterminous Chinese and Hindoos in common beyond thewenera1 characteristics of the human species which belong to all t e children of Adam P But what we must chieflyinsist 11po11 in the investigation we nre now undertaking is, that the life of each is manifested hv a special physiognomy deeply imprinted in their whole history, which we liere call charactw. What each of them is their histor shows and there is no better liieans of judging of them than b j reviewin the various events which compose tlieir For t e various events whish go to form twliehiar t liifse . called the history of a nation are its individual actions, the spontaneous energy of its life and, as a man shows what he is by his acts, so does a nation or a race by the facts cf its history. When we compare the vast despotisms of Asia, crystallizecl into forms whidl have scarcely clinngcd since the first settlement of man in those immense plains, with the active and ever-moving smdler groups of Europeans settled in the west of the Old World since the dispersion of mankind, we see at a glance how the characters of both may be read in their respective angels. And, comin down gradually to less extreme cases, we recognize the same p t enomcnon manifested even in contiguous tribes, sprin ing long ago, . perhaps, from the same stock, but which have been B o rmed into distinct nations by distinct ancestors, although they acBnowledge a common origin. The antagonism in their character is immediately brought out by what historians or annalists have to say of them. Are not the cruelty and rapacity of the old Scandinavian race still visible in their descendants 1 And the spirit of organization displayed by them from the beginning in the seizure, survey...<
