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A Critical Study Of The Historical Method Of Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1915) (Paperback)
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A Critical Study Of The Historical Method Of Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1915) (Paperback)
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for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3Ill THE PROBLEM OF
CONSISTENCY With the possible exception of Mary Stuart, hardly a
character in all English history has been more discussed than
Charles I. From the time he was born, opinions about him. differed;
during his life-time, blood was freely shed for and against him;
since his death he has been vilified and canonized, the eulogiums
of Dr. Sacheverell being succeeded by the harsh judgments of
Macaulay and his ilk. If there is one man whose opinions on Charles
should be worthier of acceptance than another's, it is Dr.
Gardiner. The briefest way of testing his views on this violent
controversy is to examine his opinions on what has been for at
least two centuries its moot point, the Eikon Basilike." Dr.
Gardiner declared in the ninth volume of the textit{History of
England, that it was a matter of indifference whether Charles or
Gauden wrote that book, but he adds: "What I am concerned to affirm
is that Charles's real character and views are portrayed in the
book."1 What he thought the book showed Charles to be appears in
the last volume of the textit{Great Civil War, where he says that
the book is "a spiritual revelation of the inmost thoughts of the
justest of sovereigns and the most self-denying of martyrs." His
earlier idea that this was Charles's real character, he has now
given up, for he goes on to say that the book "served to create an
ideal image of Charles," and possessed "enough of dramatic veracity
to convince all textit{who were prepared to believe it, that they
had before them the real thoughts of the man."2 He then explains
that this ideal view of the King secured its hold on men's
imaginations because "it faithfully reproduced at least one side of
Charles's character." Gardiner has thus said that this book shows
us the real Charles, that it portrays an ideal Charles so unlike
t...
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