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English historian Henry Thomas Buckle (1821 62) was born into the
family of a wealthy London merchant. A child of delicate health,
and tutored privately at home, he never attended university.
Nevertheless, it was clear that he was meant for intellectual
pursuits and by the age of twenty he was a formidable chess player.
With his love of books and reading, he set out on an ambitious plan
to write a fourteen-volume history of civilisation, and at the same
time to put historical research on a more scientific basis. The
work would have included a greater number of countries, but due to
his early death, only two volumes exist. Published in 1857, this is
the first of two volumes that make up Buckle's unfinished history
of civilisation. It focuses on England and France, and their
intellectual, political, religious and social histories.
English historian Henry Thomas Buckle (1821 62) was born into the
family of a wealthy London merchant. A child of delicate health,
and tutored privately at home, he never attended university.
Nevertheless, it was clear that he was meant for intellectual
pursuits and by the age of twenty he was a formidable chess player.
With his love of books and reading, he set out on an ambitious plan
to write a fourteen-volume history of civilisation, and at the same
time to put historical research on a more scientific basis. The
work would have included a greater number of countries, but due to
his early death, only two volumes exist. Published in 1861, this is
the second of two volumes that make up Buckle's unfinished history
of civilization. It focuses on Scotland, and its intellectual,
religious, political and social history. It also includes a chapter
on Spain.
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