365 Day Project: Day 111
Matt Trent
Advocate for Growth through Knowledge & Experience | Co-Founder, GreenBox U | Guiding Professionals to Maximize Their Unique Strengths & Insights
Books as Windows to the Past
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1863)
[Vol. 39, pp. 410-418 of The Harvard Classics]
Through the pages of a book the reader sees the life of past days. Carnivals, processions, battles, coronations, voyages - the whole history of the world and its people is revealed in a stupendous pageant. Taine was a Frenchman who wrote an unsurpassed history of English literature; its introduction reveals the unusual combination of an imaginative and an analytical style.
(H. A. Taine born April 21, 1828.)
I highlighted the following thought-provoking passage from today’s reading.?
“ON OBSERVING the visible man with your own eyes what do you try to find in him? The invisible man. These words which your ears catch, those gestures, those airs of the head, his attire and sensible operations of all kinds, are, for you, merely so many expressions; these express something, a soul. An inward man is hidden beneath the outward man, and the latter simply manifests the former. “
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Resources
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