The first-sight phenomena of historic time, and the ocular mechanism of historic memory : developing organic principles for the most rapid possible acquisition and affixment of historical knowledge, and forming an elucidatory and illustrative companion to the fifth edition, coloured, of Major Bell's twenty-five royal folio synchrono-historic and biographic tables / by Major James Bell.

  • Bell, James, Major.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The first-sight phenomena of historic time, and the ocular mechanism of historic memory : developing organic principles for the most rapid possible acquisition and affixment of historical knowledge, and forming an elucidatory and illustrative companion to the fifth edition, coloured, of Major Bell's twenty-five royal folio synchrono-historic and biographic tables / by Major James Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BARBARISM. nearest living analogy with which we can compare it. Thus, towards Poland we may look for a toler- ably faithful living picture of the filth, sloth, and oppressive tyranny of the feudal ages of Europe; and again, to the modern Turks we may look if we wish to view many strongly resemblant features to the character of the ancient Eoman rule. For not alone in the fabulous tradition, by each of those na- tions, of their earliest chieftain, or founder, having been suckled by a she-wolf, did the shepherds of Latium, and the shepherds of Scythia, without any mutual intercourse, offer a striking point of re- semblance; but for many generations (aye, during at least the five hundred and fifty years from the foundation of Rome, which passed away before a taste for literature was first introduced, or brought into fashion by the Scipios) the Turks and the Ro- mans will appear in personal character to be pre- cisely the same description of rude and fortunate military adventurers. Each nation subsisting upon military spoil, each proudly holding itself aloof from, and refusing in manners or in blood to amal- gamate with the conquered, each cherishing an over- bearing military ferocity as the haut ton of their nation, and each (generally speaking) esteeming martial prowess to be the sole estimable or essential qualification. And in imperial rule, the Roman and the Osman have had alike their formidable and tur- bulent Praetorians and Janizaries, and alike their ra- pacious and distant governors, who, when they arose to such wealth or influence as to excite the jealousy