The Land of Home Rule

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Excerpt from The Land of Home Rule: An Essay on the History and Constitution of the Isle of Man Historians are naturally inclined to select as subjects for their investigation the careers of great men or the rise and fall of great communities. They reject, as hardly worthy of their labours, the story of those smaller nations which have exercised no considerable influence on the fortunes or the progress of the human family. And their choice is at least intelligible. "Les grands evénements et les grands hommes sont les points fixes et les sommets de l'histoire, c'est de là qu'on peut la con-siddrer dans son ensemble, et la suivre dans ses grandes voies." But the byways as well as the highways of the world teem with matter for the observer to watch, the moralist to study, the teacher to explain. The new discoveries, the new ideas, which have added dignity to man, have been elaborated at least as frequently in the cottage as in the palace, the struggle for existence, on which progress has depended, has been as acute and bitter in the village as in the town, and the writer who relates the story of a small community will usually find that its fortunes have been affected by the causes which have, influenced the progress of mighty empires. This circumstance has been illustrated in our own time by the selection which a great historian has made for the subject of a comprehensive history. 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.