By Duncan Forbes
This essay, which received the Prince Consort Prize for 1950, treats of the progressive swap in ancient writing that the access into England, early within the 19th century, of the information of Vico and of the German ancient institution. mainly via Coleridge's effect, eighteenth-century rationalist suppositions gave position in definite males to a essentially adverse, 'Romantic' philosophy, and with the intention to a brand new type of background. Mr. Forbes is especially concerned about the half performed during this revolution by means of the liberal Anglicans: Thomas Arnold, Headmaster of Rugby and Regius Professsor of contemporary heritage at Oxford; Richard Whitely, Professor of Political economic system at Oxford and Archbishop of Dublin; Julius Charles Hare, disciple of Coleridge and translator (with Thirlwall) of Niebuhr's historical past of Rome; Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's and writer of the heritage of Greece; Henry Hart Milman, Professor of Poetry and Oxford and Dean of St Paul's; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, scholar and biographer of Thomas Arnold, and Dean of Westminster. they've got in other places been studied within the cubicles of 'classical' and 'ecclesiastical' heritage. however it is key to their outlook on Church and country that for them no such cubicles existed, and their proposal of background as a complete has hitherto lacked an English historian. This essay does even more than make clear technical difficulties in a single of many of the principles of heritage embraced in Professor Toynbee's procedure. Mr. Forbes addresses his e-book to all scholars of nineteenth-century proposal.
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Ibid. vol. 71, p. 456. [36] 4 Ibid. vol. 78, p. 121. Review of Grote's History of Greece, vols. 1 and nQune 1846). 5 6 Ibid. vol. 71, p. 457. Ibid. vol. 68, p. 392. [37] 3 35 THE LIBERAL ANGLICAN IDEA OF HISTORY As nations go through the natural stages of the process of civilization, the imaginative elements recede, 'material and dimly mental man'1 develops into spiritual and intellectual man, and a state of intellectual independence succeeds a state of intellectual bondage. The Romantic theory ofmental development is expressed neatly and comprehensively in an essay by Hare in the 1838 edition of the Guesses at Truth, on the course of poetry.
About the beginning of the 14th century the commons of Augsburg found themselves sufficiently advanced in wealth and power to lay claim to their share of the rights of citizenship. They seem first to have been admitted into the great council, as the plebeians at Rome voted in the comitia before being admitted to the Senate. Finally, in 1368, the commons secured not only equality of rights, but an absolute ascendancy. 2 'Spring is ever a critical period', and 'in the political Spring also there are peculiar dangers'.
643. 3 Ibid. p. 627. THE LIBERAL ANGLICAN IDEA OF HISTORY bloody factions of Corcyra and Megara are analogous to the civil wars of Marius and Sylla, of Caesar and Pompey, Brutus and Cassius and the Triumvirs; the harmless contests between commons and patricians can only be compared to those in Greece before the Persian invasion. . , 1 The state of Greece from Pericles to Alexander . . 2 The 'modern' writers of Greece correspond to the 'modern' writers of R o m e , and both should particularly appeal to us, because we are living in an analogous period.
