Lanterna Rally

Author: Benchara Branford

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Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781330477557

Excerpt from Janus and Vesta: A Study of the World Crisis and After The present study has been thought out and written at intervals during the last five and twenty years, under the impression, faint at first but steadily increasing in strength, that the world was passing through a crisis of which the great war has been but the unhappy culmination. Difficult as is the matter of which it treats, the author hopes that the work to which he has devoted so many years will merit thoughtful public attention, and come to exercise some modest measure of useful influence in the gradual regeneration of culture and civilisation that will be needed when society passes from its crisis into the healing stage of its lysis. In matter so complex in its nature the author would venture in all modesty to offer the advice of Lagrange: Read backwards and forwards, in the belief that it will repay careful study. To this end each chapter has been made a whole in itself as well as a part of a larger whole. The indulgence of the critical reader is asked for the author's frequent use of the french custom of the omission of capitals: the aesthetic needs of the eye and avoidance of ambiguity have been deliberately permitted to override the demands of convention and consistency. During a recent long and serious illness the author has become greatly indebted to his esteemed friend Professor Nunn, M.A., D.Sc., of London University for correction and criticism of proof sheets, and to his brother, the Rev. John Branford, M.A., for the Index. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."