{"id":12213,"date":"2017-08-20T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T06:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=12213"},"modified":"2020-11-15T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T08:28:05","slug":"the-lessons-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2017\/08\/20\/the-lessons-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lessons of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Will Durant, Ariel Durant<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"hreview\">\n<div class=\"big450Box\">\n<div class=\"big450BoxBody\">\n<div class=\"big450BoxContent\">\n<div class=\"reviewText mediumText description readable\">A delightful read. Surprisingly small in terms of number of pages, for a book that&#8217;s titled &#8220;The Lessons of History&#8221;. A total of 13 chapters, of which 10 are devoted to history&#8217;s relationship with other sciences- from biology to economics and philosophies &#8211; from politics to morals.<\/div>\n<div class=\"reviewText mediumText description readable\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"reviewText mediumText description readable\">The book covers a lot of ground and vast swathes of history are reduced to a paragraph with learning that is applicable even now. The text is succinct and it would seem like each word has been weighed carefully before being used in a particular context. In uncovering the thesis, antithesis and synthesis in different domains, there are some superb profundities. e.g. &#8220;for freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails, the other dies.&#8221; or &#8220;Heaven and utopia are buckets in a well: when one goes down, the other goes up.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"reviewText mediumText description readable\"><!--more--><br \/>\nIt is amazing how many of the things we consider as unique to our times have been manifest across history in different forms. I particularly liked the last chapter &#8211; &#8220;Is Progress Real?&#8221; &#8211; where the author wonders if we have merely &#8220;enlarged our instrumentalities without improving our purposes&#8221;. But he counters this in the final pages by stating that our victory lies in history itself, in our transmission of our civilisations&#8217; heritage across generations, a process that continues unabated.<\/div>\n<div id=\"review-like\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"review-follow\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12452 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/The-Lessons-of-History.jpg\" alt=\"The Lessons of History\" width=\"433\" height=\"597\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/The-Lessons-of-History.jpg 433w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/The-Lessons-of-History-218x300.jpg 218w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 433px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 433\/597;\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Durant, Ariel Durant A delightful read. Surprisingly small in terms of number of pages, for a book that&#8217;s titled &#8220;The Lessons of History&#8221;. A total of 13 chapters, of which 10 are devoted to history&#8217;s relationship with other sciences- from biology to economics and philosophies &#8211; from politics to morals. The book covers a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2017\/08\/20\/the-lessons-of-history\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6004,6006,6003],"tags":[5324,5323,5022],"class_list":["post-12213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-favourites","category-history-politics","category-non-fiction","tag-ariel-durant","tag-the-lessons-of-history","tag-will-durant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12453,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions\/12453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}