Author: American Catholic Historic PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331747123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Excerpt from Records of the American Catholic Historical Society, Vol. 26: Of Philadelphia When, therefore, the poison has been once imbibed in tender years a remedy is scarcely ever to be found. For it is an elusive hope that with the growth of years they will know better and will unlearn what they have learned in the beginning; because few give themselves to a thorough and careful study of history and in later years they will find in daily life more perhaps to confirm than to correct their errors. "It is therefore of grave importance that so pressing a danger should be met and to see that historical studies be no longer suffered to remain in the channel of great public and private calamities... Let bare assertions be replaced by the fruits of painful and patient research; judgments rashly formed by the outcome of serious study and frivolous opinions by the criticisms of wisdom. Strenuous efforts should be made to refute all falsehoods and untrue statements by ascending to the fountain heads of information, keeping vividly in mind that the first law of history is 'To dread uttering falsehood; the next not to fear stating the truth; lastly that the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity'... If the Church, then, has always deserved well of history, let her again do so to-day when the very state of the times in which we live constrains to that duty. For, as we have already said, since our enemies have recourse above all to history for their weapons the Church must needs be equally armed and where the attack is most violent there arm herself the more strongly for the assault." This letter was written in 1883 and published in English in various publications, among them The Pastor, a monthly journal for priests, where it appeared in October, 1883. It is from there that this abstract is taken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
