Burke (Lecture on Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
When I received the honor of your invitation to speak on Burke, my first feeling, as you will well believe, was one of doubt—doubt whether indeed I had anything that should to say not be a tedious repetition of things adequately said before, unless, avoiding that, I fell into the ungainly and affected originality of a new interpretation. I put that by way of preface and disclaimer, because I shall have to say one or two things about Burke that I should not have said forty years ago; and the difference does mark a change of method and attitude, of which I suppose we are all aware, and which has undoubtedly been brought about by the explorations of modern psychology. We should do wrong not to avail ourselves of anything they may contribute to our understanding of past times and famous men, while never forgetting Sir Walter Scott’s injunction to the doctors, to heal all their contemporaries before they begin to practice on the illustrious dead. I say past times, because it is undeniable that just as every age has its own characteristic temperament, which we can read in its pictures and hear in its prose, so it has its characteristic departures and outbreaks, typical lesions and recognizable insanities.
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Burke (Lecture on Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
When I received the honor of your invitation to speak on Burke, my first feeling, as you will well believe, was one of doubt—doubt whether indeed I had anything that should to say not be a tedious repetition of things adequately said before, unless, avoiding that, I fell into the ungainly and affected originality of a new interpretation. I put that by way of preface and disclaimer, because I shall have to say one or two things about Burke that I should not have said forty years ago; and the difference does mark a change of method and attitude, of which I suppose we are all aware, and which has undoubtedly been brought about by the explorations of modern psychology. We should do wrong not to avail ourselves of anything they may contribute to our understanding of past times and famous men, while never forgetting Sir Walter Scott’s injunction to the doctors, to heal all their contemporaries before they begin to practice on the illustrious dead. I say past times, because it is undeniable that just as every age has its own characteristic temperament, which we can read in its pictures and hear in its prose, so it has its characteristic departures and outbreaks, typical lesions and recognizable insanities.
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| BN ID: | 2940014389990 |
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| Publisher: | WDS Publishing |
| Publication date: | 05/24/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 26 KB |
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