Historical and Political Essays

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Historical and Political Essays, by William Edward Hartpole Lecky This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Historical and Political Essays Author: William Edward Hartpole Lecky Release Date: January 17, 2007 [eBook #20389] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS*** E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the end of this document. HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYS BY WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1908 All rights reserved CONTENTS PAGE THOUGHTS ON HISTORY 1 THE POLITICAL VALUE OF HISTORY 21 THE EMPIRE: ITS VALUE AND ITS GROWTH 43 IRELAND IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY 68 FORMATIVE INFLUENCES 90 CARLYLE'S MESSAGE TO HIS AGE 104 ISRAEL AMONG THE NATIONS 116 MADAME DE STAËL 131 THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ROBERT 151 PEEL THE FIFTEENTH EARL OF DERBY 200 MR.