Excerpt from The Lifting of the Veil: Introductory Lecture of the Course on Hebrew History and Literature If from a point of View, built up by centuries and millennia, we gaze upon the vast expanse of history spread before us, we cannot pause to search out the genesis of every episode or historic speech any more than from the mountain top we can, in describing the whole scene unfolded to View, pause to trace the beginning of each blade of grass or tree leaf, all of which combine to make up the whole, each of which offers ...
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Excerpt from The Lifting of the Veil: Introductory Lecture of the Course on Hebrew History and Literature If from a point of View, built up by centuries and millennia, we gaze upon the vast expanse of history spread before us, we cannot pause to search out the genesis of every episode or historic speech any more than from the mountain top we can, in describing the whole scene unfolded to View, pause to trace the beginning of each blade of grass or tree leaf, all of which combine to make up the whole, each of which offers more food for study than a lifetime can digest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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