An Essay on History

The Second Lesson of History, Part of blupete's Essay
"An Essay on History"
What Counts ... The Simple, Regular, and Little Events of Life

"The circumstances which have most influence on the happiness of mankind, the changes of manners and morals, the transition of communities from poverty to wealth, from knowledge to ignorance, from ferocity to humanity - these are, for the most part, noiseless revolutions. Their progress is rarely indicated by what historians are pleased to call important events. They are not achieved by armies, or enacted by senates. They are sanctioned by no treaties, and recorded in no archives. They are carried on in every school, in every church, behind ten thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides." (Macaulay, "The Task of the Modern Historian.")
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