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本帖最后由 红绡 于 2010-7-2 21:09 编辑
1# wagner1985
修改---by潇
In almost every great civilization, the stories, heroic epics or biographies, even some folk tales, are important constitution of their history writings. For those historians with fame, from Herodotus to Thucydides, or Tacitus, Thomas Carlyle, Zweig and so on, removing those heroic stories from their works will make the history writings lose its basic and attractive element, which is the description of all the significance in human life. Without those important records, however implicit and vague, people cannot even know what has happened before, not to mention finding explanations about the trends in the different epochs. So it is inappropriate to blame too much chapters in history just about individuals.
Admittedly, those warfare and revolutions would never break up without the participation of the majority. Unless catering to the preference of the most of people, the activities, no matter who lead, could not success in society on any account. Thus, to understand some significant events, it is reasonable for historian to pay attention to the different groups of people. But analyzing the people which are classified in a certain way, such as social class, economical status, nation or religion, is not an easy task for them, especially for those ancient writers, because it somehow depends on some viewpoint of sociology to address the difference among the bulks of folks. On some points, it is difficult for depicting the attitudes or inclinations of the different groups in a revolution, say French Revolution, while Napoleon-like character is more than glaring.
For the historians, no others than famous people, politician, generals or great thinkers, are worthwhile of be researched, not only for the plenty of the evidence provided formal or informal stories, but also for the lack of all the other evidence. In some cases, researchers could only rely on the popularized claim or contributions of the distinctive characters to assess what the majority’s thought at the time, not to mention the latter is the very sign of a time. Some periods are even directly in name of the only person.
Although we cannot deny the reality or occurrence of the crucial change which determined the trends in our history is, from macro view, driven by the power of population, the idea made by the thinkers played an important role in subjective way. Every revolution destroyed the old institution and is of great necessary to restructure a new framework of all the
public affairs. And only rare people actually established the institution. To clarify these people’s supposition could help us find out what really influence people in hundreds years in one country. In other words, the majority incur the change, the minority inherit and sooth it.
In sum, the famous few represent the forces among population and drive it. It is not only about the notable transformations during thousands of years but also related to the hundreds after hundreds years, or dozens years with precisely be summarized in the principle, in which people are regulated by institutions and laws set by the few at the beginning of time.
最后一段感觉还是在总结论述,最好明显呼应一下开头,强调下观点。
牛人啊,学习ing~倒数第二段写的很精彩 |
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