Capitolo 17
times that they has not succeeded in recognizing the pages of history.
They only saw monuments of the ancient ability and the perseverance:
interesting squirts, portraits non historical. Some writers
you/he/she has held that we owe to abdicate the history of the past, "if
fact or the chronology, doctrine or the mythology--if in Europe,
Asia, Africa or America--to Thebes or Palenque--on Lycian
it sustained, or Salisbury complains him--lost it is lost and gone you/he/she has gone for
always." Man is the complaint of a writer,<2 endowed with talent > among the
before to ponder on the mysteries of the past. To the present
day, with best he/she wants to say by hand, a fuller of hope approves you/he/she is taken.
But here a caution is necessary; for, in to try to
reconstructs the history of primitive times, such it is the interest
what it inhales, that many allow the imagination to usurp the
place of search, and he/she writes in terms that they also burn
for history.<3>
The human mind it is sleepless in the search of knowledge. It is
new fields and never looking for of conquest. It has to advance: with him,
still to be standing is the precursor of defeat. If necessary it
it invents new methods of attack, and he/she doesn't remain until it earns his
stings objective, or it shows the desperation of his/her search.
The world has need but is informed that on a knowledge of point determined
it is weak and uncertain, when there you/he/she is found serious chins
applying all the energies to the solution of the mystery of
their natures. All the resources of science are suited for being born;
every department of knowledge is made for contributing of his
shop: and soon a mass of done it is established and a new science
it is assistant to the department of human knowledge.
This way, with our knowledge of prehistoric times, that that so apparently
vain as to try to roll again the flight of time, and it learns
the condition of primordial man? All the light of ancient history
ago but the small impression in the night of time. From his/her help us