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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Hippolyte Taine's "The French Revolution, " which is written from
the viewpoint of conservative French opinion, is a unique and
important contribution to revolutionary historiography.Taine
condemns the radicals of the French Revolution, unhesitatingly
contradicting the rosy, Rousseauesque view of the Revolution.Taine
approached the Revolution in the same way that a medical doctor
approaches a disease. Indeed, he described his work not so much as
a history as a "pathology" of the Revolution. His method
constitutes his principal contribution to study of the subject.
This method began with an examination, not of the French, but of
the English. As Professor Mona Ozouf observes, Taine "maintained
that] the history of the Revolution depended on the definition of
the French spirit." He had, in an earlier account of English
literature, defined "a unique explanatory principle" for
investigation of the contrasting societies of the French and the
English. This principle among the English, he reported, is "the
sense of liberty," or what he described as the English conviction
that "man, having conceived alone in his conscience and before God
the rules of his conduct, is above all a free, moral person." In
contrast to the English ability to conserve and even to expand
liberty through gradual adaptation to changing circumstances, Taine
identified a "French spirit" that became, Ozouf emphasizes, "his
central explanation of the French revolutionary phenomenon." This
phenomenon explained, Taine argued, why France "had demolished its
national community well before the Revolution"--thus making the
Revolution not only inevitable, but also inevitably
terrible.Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) was a historian and
philosopher who was one of the primary figures in French
Positivism.Click here for a pdf file of a brochure with additional
information about this title.
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