. Christian herald and signs of our times. LEOPOLD VON RANKE. have been ; and he spared neither time norpains in his effort to discover the real truthas to the most trivial event, before he in-corporated it in his history. The decisionto follow this honest course was madeearly in life, when in one of his-brief vaca-tions he read the historical novels of SirWalter Scott. Von Ranke was horrifiedby the levity with which the novelistmanipulated history to produce his Von Ranke it seemed a sin of the deep-est dve to distort the truth for the sake ofadding color to an historical picture.
. Christian herald and signs of our times. LEOPOLD VON RANKE. have been ; and he spared neither time norpains in his effort to discover the real truthas to the most trivial event, before he in-corporated it in his history. The decisionto follow this honest course was madeearly in life, when in one of his-brief vaca-tions he read the historical novels of SirWalter Scott. Von Ranke was horrifiedby the levity with which the novelistmanipulated history to produce his Von Ranke it seemed a sin of the deep-est dve to distort the truth for the sake ofadding color to an historical picture. Heresolved that first and foremost of all aims,his should be to write what was true. He was at Leipsic when this resolutionwas formed and he had already perceivedthat his sphere of literary labor would bethe historical field. His first school wasat I (onndorf alter which he studied atPforta, a school famous for the number ofliterary men of eminence who receivedtheir earlv training there. He was thor-oughly grounded in the classics before
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