Excerpt from The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution
The following Lectures were delivered by M. Guizot, in the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, at the Old Sorbonne, now the seat of the Faculte des Lettres, of Paris, on alternate days with MM. Cousin and Villemain, a triad of lecturers whose brilliant exhibitions, the crowds which thronged their lecture rooms, and the stir they excited in the active and aspiring minds so numerous among the French youth, the future historian will commemorate as among the remarkable appearances of that important era.
The first portion of these Lectures, those comprising the General History of Civilization in Europe, have already appeared amongst us; the Lectures on the History of Civilization in France are now for the first time introduced to English readers; a circumstance, from their high value, well calculated to surprise those who are not acquainted with the utter want of system in our adoption of the great productions of the continent; a want of system which has hitherto kept the English public in well-nigh total ignorance of the best works, of the best continental writers, and which it is one of the leading purposes of the European Library to obviate. Of these Lectures, it is most justly observed by the Edinburgh Review: "there is a consistency, a coherence, a comprehensiveness, and, what the Germans would term.
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