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A Guildsman's Interpretation of History (Paperback)
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A Guildsman's Interpretation of History (Paperback)
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Loot Price R434
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The primary object of this history is to relate the social problem
to the experience of the past and so to help bring about a clearer
comprehension of its nature. "The reason," says the author of
Erewhon, "why we cannot see the future as plainly as the past is
because we know too little of the actual past and the actual
present. The future depends upon the present, and the present
depends upon the past, and the past is unalterable." It is by
studying the past in the light of the experience of the present and
the present in the light of the past that we may attain to a fuller
understanding both of the present and the past. Certain aspects of
industrialism are new to the world, and the past offers us no
ready-made solution for them, but to understand them it is
necessary to be familiar with Mediaeval principles, for such
Mediaeval problems as those of law and currency, of the State and
the Guilds, lie behind industrialism and have determined its
peculiar development. If we were more familiar with history we
should see the problems of industrialism in a truer perspective and
would have less disposition to evolve social theories from our
inner consciousness. This neglect of the experience of the past is
no new thing; it is as old as civilization itself. Thus in
criticizing some of the fantastic proposals of Plato for the
reorganization of Greek society, Aristotle says: "Let us remember
that we should not disregard the experience of the ages; in the
multitude of years, these things, if they were good, would
certainly not have been unknown; for almost everything has been
found out, although sometimes they are not put together; in other
cases men do not use the knowledge that they have." From the
Preface]
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