Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Republic of Fools, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the History of the State and People of Abdera, in Thrace; Translated From the German
Should this little work be considered as a contribution, however small, to the history of the human understanding, the author will be well pleased He thinks, however, that this high-sounding claim is neither more nor less than is made by every writer of history. He who should renounce it, would thereby reduce his works to the class of mere childish fables.
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