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Description:An Excerpt from the book-CHAPTER IMR. BELLOC AND THE PUBLICA CASE FOR LEGISLATION _AD HOC_We stand upon the brink of a superb adventure. To rummage about in thelumber-room of a bygone period: to wipe away the dust fromlong-neglected annals: to burnish up old facts and fancies: to piecetogether the life-story of some loved hero long dead: that is a work ofreverent thought to be undertaken in peace and seclusion. But to plungeboldly into the study of a living personality: to strive to measure thegreatness of a man just entering the fullness of his powers: to attemptto grasp the nature of that greatness: this is to go out along the roadof true adventure, the road which is hard to travel, the road which hasno end.Naturally we cannot hope in this little study to escape thoseinnumerable pitfalls into which contemporary criticism always stumbles.It is impossible to-day to view Mr. Belloc and his work in that dueperspective so beloved of the don. No doubt we shall crash headlong intothe most shocking errors of judgement, exaggerating this feature andbelittling that in a way that will horrify the critic of a decade or twohence. Mr. Belloc himself may turn and rend us: deny our premises:scatter our syllogisms: pulverize our theories.This only makes our freedom the greater. Scientific analysis beingbeyond attainment, we are tied down by no rules. When we have examinedMr. Belloc's work and Mr. Belloc's personality, we are free to putforward (provided we do not mind them being refuted) what theories wechoose. Nothing could be more alluring.In a book about Mr. Belloc the reader may have expected to make Mr.Belloc's acquaintance on the first page. But Mr. Belloc is a difficultman to meet. Even if you have a definite appointment with him (as youhave in this book) you cannot be certain that you will not be obliged towait. Every day of Mr. Belloc's life is so full of engagements that heis inevitably late for some of them. But his courtesy is invariable: andhe will often make himself a little later by stopping to ring you up inorder to apologize for his lateness and to assure you that he will bewith you in a quarter of an hour.We may imagine him, then, hastening to meet us in one of those taxicabsof which he is so bountiful a patron, and, in the interval, before wemake his personal acquaintance, try to recall what we already know ofhim.At the present time Mr. Hilaire Belloc to his largest public is quitesimply and solely the war expert. To those people, thousands in number,who have become acquainted with Mr. Belloc through the columns of _Landand Water_, the _Illustrated Sunday Herald_, and other journals andperiodicals, or have swelled the audiences at his lectures in London andthe various provincial centres, his name promises escape from thebewilderment engendered by an irritated Press and an approximation, atleast, to a clear conception of the progress of the war. Those whorealize, as Mr. Belloc himself points out somewhere, that there hasnever been a great public occasion in regard to which it is morenecessary that men should have a sound judgment than it is in regard tothis war, gladly turn to him for guidance.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Edward Shanks - Hilaire Belloc. To get started finding Edward Shanks - Hilaire Belloc, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An Excerpt from the book-CHAPTER IMR. BELLOC AND THE PUBLICA CASE FOR LEGISLATION _AD HOC_We stand upon the brink of a superb adventure. To rummage about in thelumber-room of a bygone period: to wipe away the dust fromlong-neglected annals: to burnish up old facts and fancies: to piecetogether the life-story of some loved hero long dead: that is a work ofreverent thought to be undertaken in peace and seclusion. But to plungeboldly into the study of a living personality: to strive to measure thegreatness of a man just entering the fullness of his powers: to attemptto grasp the nature of that greatness: this is to go out along the roadof true adventure, the road which is hard to travel, the road which hasno end.Naturally we cannot hope in this little study to escape thoseinnumerable pitfalls into which contemporary criticism always stumbles.It is impossible to-day to view Mr. Belloc and his work in that dueperspective so beloved of the don. No doubt we shall crash headlong intothe most shocking errors of judgement, exaggerating this feature andbelittling that in a way that will horrify the critic of a decade or twohence. Mr. Belloc himself may turn and rend us: deny our premises:scatter our syllogisms: pulverize our theories.This only makes our freedom the greater. Scientific analysis beingbeyond attainment, we are tied down by no rules. When we have examinedMr. Belloc's work and Mr. Belloc's personality, we are free to putforward (provided we do not mind them being refuted) what theories wechoose. Nothing could be more alluring.In a book about Mr. Belloc the reader may have expected to make Mr.Belloc's acquaintance on the first page. But Mr. Belloc is a difficultman to meet. Even if you have a definite appointment with him (as youhave in this book) you cannot be certain that you will not be obliged towait. Every day of Mr. Belloc's life is so full of engagements that heis inevitably late for some of them. But his courtesy is invariable: andhe will often make himself a little later by stopping to ring you up inorder to apologize for his lateness and to assure you that he will bewith you in a quarter of an hour.We may imagine him, then, hastening to meet us in one of those taxicabsof which he is so bountiful a patron, and, in the interval, before wemake his personal acquaintance, try to recall what we already know ofhim.At the present time Mr. Hilaire Belloc to his largest public is quitesimply and solely the war expert. To those people, thousands in number,who have become acquainted with Mr. Belloc through the columns of _Landand Water_, the _Illustrated Sunday Herald_, and other journals andperiodicals, or have swelled the audiences at his lectures in London andthe various provincial centres, his name promises escape from thebewilderment engendered by an irritated Press and an approximation, atleast, to a clear conception of the progress of the war. Those whorealize, as Mr. Belloc himself points out somewhere, that there hasnever been a great public occasion in regard to which it is morenecessary that men should have a sound judgment than it is in regard tothis war, gladly turn to him for guidance.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Edward Shanks - Hilaire Belloc. To get started finding Edward Shanks - Hilaire Belloc, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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