| The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress Contributor(s): Santayana, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1519403607 ISBN-13: 9781519403605 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $23.98 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1905 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - History | World - General - Self-help |
| Dewey: 191 |
| Physical Information: 1.29" H x 6" W x 9" (1.86 lbs) 640 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull? On this head of exaggeration I have a positive experience, more curious than the speculation I have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some counterpart of that character has incredulously asked me: "Now really, did I ever really, see one like it?" All the Pecksniff family upon earth are quite agreed, I believe, that Mr Pecksniff is an exaggeration, and that no such character ever existed. I will not offer any plea on his behalf to so powerful and genteel a body, but will make a remark on the character of Jonas Chuzzlewit. |
