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HERDER'S THOUGHTS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.
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ART . IV . This History of Rome , in the whole of its extent , exhibits the successive stages of the transformation by which the ancient passed into the modern world , —the classical was superseded by the romantic spirit of literature , —and the whole mass of civilization , inherited from the Greeks , —laws , usages , institutions , manners , policy , and religion , —mingled with fresh elements , and
wrought upon by foreign agencies , assumed the new forms of social life , that were consolidated during the torpor of the middle ages , and prepared the materials out of which the changes and improvements of modern Europe were destined ultimately to spring . To a philosophic spirit this is one of the most interesting periods in the history of the world ; and we heartily join in the wish which Dr . Channing has somewhere expressed , that it might
again be traversed by ( he meditations and researches of some powerful mind , which should combine with the learning , diligence , and sagacity of Gibbon , an exemption from his an ti-Christian prejudices . How often have we occasion to apply the very just observation of Heeren * , in speaking of the Jewish History previous to the Captivity , —that , on such subjects , c unfortunately , we have not yet any competent work , written in an impartial spirit , without superstition or scepticism . '
The civilization which the Romans were the instruments of diffusing through almost the whole extent of the then known world , was not of native growth , but derived from Greece . The chief vehicle of its diffusion even was Grecian ; the Greek language being far more generally understood than the Latin * f-. Subsequently , indeed , the division of the Greek and Latin empires , with a corresponding schism in the doctrine and ritual of the
* Manual of Ancient History , p . 35 . f Graeca leguntur in omnibus fere gentibus : Latina suis finibus , exiguis sand continentur . Cicero pro Archia . 10 .
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MONTHLY REPOSITORY .
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No . 64 . R
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APRIL , 1832 .
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NEW SERIES , No . LXIV .
Herder's Thoughts On The Philosophy Of The History Of Mankind.
HERDER ' S THOUGHTS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HISTORY OF MANKIND .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/1/
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