Origin of History as Metaphysic (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Origin of History as MetaphysicFor, once Clio mythologized about man, but was silent con cerning the scraping left on a rock by an aboriginal snail or the scrapings left on rocks by aboriginal scribes, for man is never snail or rock or inscription, unless scribbling carries the Medusa's curse and transforms scribes to relics or rocks, but she sang to delight, in measured speech, and if her words sound harsher to the ear now, it is because She must shout in protest to be heard. She lies uneasy in her new temple, though it is much larger than her ancient one. She has not become accustomed to her patchwork Shroud. Her celebrants have introduced strange new rites in her honor, they glorify man as an assemblage of Historical fragments, as an ear resulting from noise or a brain resulting from nerves, or as a cipher relative to something which is not stable bringing up a rear of developments from which man is sal vaged but which is not-man, and carrying a future which may be not-man but which man may evolve without his ever having known what man is, though his development from something is known along with the knowledge that nothing of man is eternal but the tempo of his evolving from some thing into man and out of man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.