Little journeys to the homes of the great . a hunger for love thatonly the grave requited. There, too, were fierce flashesof wrath, smothered in an hour by the soft dew of faults and follies were manifold, as he oftenlamented with tears; but the soul of the man was sub-lime in its qualities—worldwide in its influence. 170 THOMAS B. MACAULAY The perfect historian is he in whose work the characterand spirit of the age is exhibited in miniature. He relatesno fact, he attributes no expression to his characters,which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. Butby judicious selection,
Little journeys to the homes of the great . a hunger for love thatonly the grave requited. There, too, were fierce flashesof wrath, smothered in an hour by the soft dew of faults and follies were manifold, as he oftenlamented with tears; but the soul of the man was sub-lime in its qualities—worldwide in its influence. 170 THOMAS B. MACAULAY The perfect historian is he in whose work the characterand spirit of the age is exhibited in miniature. He relatesno fact, he attributes no expression to his characters,which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. Butby judicious selection, rejection and arrangement, hegives to truth those attractions which have beenusurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordinationis observed: some transactions are prominent; othersretire. But the scale on which he represents them isincreased or diminished, not according to the dignity ofthe persons concerned in them, but according to thedegree in which they elucidate the condition of societyand the nature of man. —Essay on History. MACAULAY THOMAS B. MACAULAY
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