After a certain time the society thus founded on kindred or common
religion or both, becomes aware that its union is a thing valuable
for its own sake, that government and organisation and co-operative
life are useful in themselves to the individuals who possess them.
Hence there springs up the conception of a common good, a common
weal, which is independent of such considerations as kindred or
religion; by degrees the society disengages itself from these
props...-from Introduction to Political ScienceOne of the most
important and respected historians of his day was also a beloved
professor at Cambridge University, where his classes and lectures
were famous for their clarity and enlightenment. It's easy to see
why students clamored to be taught by Seeley: in this collection of
lectures, delivered in the late 1880s and early 1890s and published
posthumously in book form in 1896, he shares his thoughts on
methods of studying the past in with such clear-eyed lucidity, in
such warm and jargon-free language that complicated concepts are
rendered perfectly plain.Also available from Cosimo Classics:
Seeley's lectures on The Expansion of England.British classical
scholar SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY (1834-1895) was Regius Professor of
Modern History at Cambridge, a fellow of the Royal Historical
Society, and an honorary member of Historical Society of
Massachusetts. He is also the author of Ecce Homo.
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