Saif 17/02/25
Saif 17/02/25
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ind/11/02/2025
Ance 20/01/2025
(LB 31/10/2024)
During the spring of 1991, I put a proposition to Paul Keating. He was the country's best-known backbencher at the time, residing in room 101 in the House of Representatives. I wanted to write an inside account of his still-unresolved contest with Bob Hawke for the prime ministereship.
SINCE this work was first published, twenty-one years ago, several naturalists have visited the Archipelago; and in order to give my readers the latest results of their researches I have added footnotes whenever my facts or conclusions have been modified by later discoveries. I have also made a few verbal alterations in the text to correct any small errors or obscurities. These corrections and …
SECTION IL. In its widest possible extension the title of this book -Adventures of Ideas-might be taken as a synonym for The His- tory of The Human Race, in respect to its wide variety of mental experiences. In this sense of the title, the Human Race must experi- ence its own history. It cannot be written in its total variety.rn
Our discussion has already suggested that history is not a study isolated from other disciplines. The influence of the ideas of ethics and the presence of the historian's point of view really belong to philosophy. The literary excellence of a few histories gives them a place in literature. It follows that the history of historiography stands as a parallel to the history of literature and the hi…