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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [149] Striking example of falsehoods due to vanity are to be found in abundance in the Économies royales of Sully and the Mémoires of Retz.
  2. [150] Fustel de Coulanges himself went to the formulæ of the inscriptions in honour of the emperors for a proof that the peoples liked the imperial régime. "If we read the inscriptions, the sentiment which they exhibit is always one of satisfaction and gratitude.... See the collection of Orelli, the most frequent expressions are...." And the enumeration of the titles of respect given to the emperors ends with this strange aphorism: "It would show ignorance of human nature to see nothing but flattery in all this." There is not even flattery here; there is nothing but formulæ.
  3. [151] Suger, in his life of Louis VI., is a model of this type.
  4. [152] The Chronicon Helveticum of Tschudi is a striking instance.
  5. [153] Aristophanes and Demosthenes are two striking examples of the power great writers have of paralysing critics and obscuring facts. Not till the close of the nineteenth century has any one ventured to recognise frankly their lack of good faith.
  6. [154] For example, the account of the election of Otto I. in the Gesta Ottonis of Wittekind.
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