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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May 1924

1924

But are the facts to be put down just as they are recorded in documents ? Or is the historian at liberty to employ his imagination to recreate the men and women of the times from the dry hones of facts ? Macaulay's ambition was to make his " History " take the place of the latest novel of the day -to be for the ordinary reader as interesting and as attractive as the latest fiction; and the prote [...] It seems to him that the probing of the lives of the average men of the past is useless"19241 HISTORY AND LITERATURE 1S7 from the historian's view-point ; and too often it is only the result of morbid curiosity a curiosity that would lay bare the ugliness of the past. [...] A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour and the easily following connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph is always won by the sweat of the brow."' Every historian must combine the three functions the " scientific " the " speculative " and the " literary." The first is his accumulation of materials and the examination of the evidence. [...] The gradual abandonment of the principle of final causes in the economy of Nature and the increasing adherence of Truth to the principle of mechanism are no doubt important factors in the decay of Poesy. [...] The proposition that the interests'of society are often antagonistic to those of the individual undoubtedly an ugly one has in the West led to the subordination or even deliberate slaughter of the individual to the interests of the society so that min is deprived of his soul and made a mortal a mere vermin in the international relations of society.
history
Pages
241
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Death and Love
175-178 M. Ghose view
History and Literature
179-191 Henry Stephen view
A Rationalistic View of Poesy
192-204 K.C. Sen view
Manmohan Ghose—the poet
205-209 Lotika Ghosh view
The Antiquities of Some Villages of Eastern Bengal
210-229 Benoy Sen view
Bir Singh Deo
230-247 Sita Ram view
Indian Railways
248-278 S.C. Ghose view
Femininity in Letters
279-286 J.C. Ghosh view
The Boghazkoi Inscriptions and their Value for Vedic Chronology
287-294 Kshetresachandra Chattopadhyaya view
Immanuel Kant His Problem and his Solution
295-330 Henry Stephen view
Evolution of State Concept in Ancient India
331-340 Narayanachandra Bandyopadhayay view
Scottish Chaucerian Poets
341-348 Michael Macmillan view
Steel Development in India
349-358 J.C. Dasgupta view
Rajgir
359-363 D.N. Sen view
Dyarchy a study in “Specific Devolution”
364-375 Khagendranath Sen, Pabirta Banu, Haricharan Ghosh view
Importance of the Study of the Ancient History of India
376-393 D.R. Bhandarkar view
Some Original Sources for a Biography of Begam Sombre
394-398 Brajendranath Banerji view
Reviews
399-402 unknown view
Ourselves
403-414 unknown view

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