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Excerpt from A Concise History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans, to the Accession of Queen Victoria; Written on a New Plan, With Particular Reference to Chronology and Facts The importance of history as an element in education, is daily becom ing more generally confessed. Experience constitutes the principal cause of difference between the judgments of mature age, and the crude notions of boyhood; and the experience of the individual is chie y drawn from his acquaintance with the lives of others. But history has accumulated the observations 'of the wisest men upon the experience of thousands. Right, with its results of blessedness, and honor, and wrong, with all its consequents of misery, are illustrated upon her panorama, in the exam ples of both individuals and nations. The youth, therefore, who is dis posed to learn as the wise learn in life, may, by this means, add the most valuable of that experience which honors age, to the active habits and generous impulses of early years. Though every page of history is valuable to human instruction, 3. Special interest must always belong to records of the student's own par ticular race; not only because he naturally loves them most; but also because therein he will find, more than anywhere 'else in history, what ought to in uence his own career in life. There is necessarily such a connection between him and the people of whom he is descended, that his own duties are, in a great measure, dictated thereby. Many points on which the life of an Englishman ought to differ from that of a French man, are due entirely to the inheritance which he has received from his fathers and that German must be condemned as recreant to the obliga tions laid upon him by his country, who should content himself with the ignorance that might be excusable in a. Kalmuck' while the long felt wants of Italy and Hungary impose upon every child of those lands a weightier duty of effort for deliverance and redress, than rests upon the descendants of the free. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."