Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Excursions of an Evolutionist
History of England - One cannot fail to be struck by the disproportion between the amounts of space devoted respectively to ancient and to modern events. Of the eight bulky volumes of Knight, the first covers a period of 1432 years, from Caesar's invasion of Britain to the death of Edward III.; the second, bringing us down to the death of Henry VIII., covers 170 years; the third takes us 95 years further, to the beginning of the Great Rebellion While five volumes are required to do justice to the two centuries intervening between the overthrow of Strafi'ord and the repeal of the corn laws. This is due partly to the greater complexity of modern life, and partly to the increasing abun dance of our sources of information. It is true.
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