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THAT the study of history maketh a man wise was the saying of a great Elizabethan, but it was one of the great Victorians who preferred a copy of the Times to “all the writings of Thucydides”; the great days of Elizabeth would not seem so spacious had one or two such sayings as the last come down to us from them! An historic sense was somewhat far to seek in the Victorian age. The nineteenth century had all but forgotten its own past. Lyell and Darwin, Schwann and Virchow, Lister, Faraday and Joule had a way of making their immediate predecessors look old-fashioned, as the post-chaise looked when the railway came. In short, so great a revolution had taken place, in things mental as well as in things practical that it seemed (so Judge Stallo said) as though Bacon's demand had at last been thoroughly complied with, ut opus mentis universam de integro resumatur.
Le Scuole Ionica, Pythagorica ed Eleata (1 Prearistotelici, 1.)
By Dr. Aldo Mieli. Pp. xvi + 593. (Firenze: Libreria della Voce, 1916.): Price lire 12.
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THOMPSON, D. Le Scuole Ionica, Pythagorica ed Eleata (I Prearistotelici,I.) . Nature 98, 165–167 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098165a0
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