Feelings in History

Download or read book Feelings in History written by Ramsay MacMullen and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can apply to our reading of history the same powers of mind that we bring to novels. That is the idea of the book, to enrich our understanding of motivation -- the Why of history. Ancient writers knew this. That can be shown in detail. Modern psychology supports the idea. And the idea can be illustrated out of modern historians. An example: how a specific big event, abolition, developed out of feelings which any reader must share and, sharing, must understand better.