Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, the creator of the House of Commons

Reinhold Pauli

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HANDBOUND
AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF
TORONTO PRESSr^fe^s
DESIMON MONTFORT,
EARL OF LEICESTER,
CREATOR OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.THE
BY
KEINHOLD PATJLI.
TRANSLATED BY UNA M. GOODWIN.
WITH IXTRODUCTIOX BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.
LONDON:
TEtlBKER & LUDGATE HILL.CO.,
1876.
[All Rights Reserved.]H7P58E
PRINTED Br TATLOR AND
CO.,
LITTLE QtEEN LINCOLN'S INNSHEET, FIELDS.INTRODUCTION
BY
HARRIET MARTINEAU.
Dr. Pauli's observation at the of the Prefaceopening
—of his that movement in humanwork, every great
is embodied and illustrated in the character ofSociety
—one will be topre-eminent man, hardly objected by
order of readers but it itself;any probably approves
most to those who are the as Avell aswarmly oldest,
the most The relish of the ofworthy. study History
follows the same law in the in to ofcase, regard age,
a and an individual. In the ofpeople youthful days
a nation the Historical interest is in theimplicated
and ofromance war and in thesuspense conquest,
of and the or ofadventure,poetry triumph grief mighty
revolutions of fortune. As a oldercommunity grows
in the character of its interest inexperience, History
Institutions and Laws becomechanges essentially.
more attractive than invasions and battles : a instage
civilisation is seen to be more valuable than an exten-
sion of and the mind to a;territory general opens
sense of the to the ofqualities necessary acquisition
a 2INTRODUCTION.
IV
thedoesthe sameJust in way
the good.higher
itsof groundchangein the Historyinterest study
foraskschild fairytime. The onlyofwith lapse
of adventurenarrativesdevourstales the school-boy;
considerationtohis attractionand anyand conquest;
in itsthenits magna-lies in first,—of character daring
itsthe coalesce,—when conceptionsand,nimity,—
heroism.
andare exhaustible;however,These conceptions,
enteredto bewisdom liesrealm of upona whole ready
the indivi-andon the one hand,when the community
ex-becomeson the bydual student other, qualified
toand appreciate acquisitionscontemplationperience
The andricher field.from the growthconception
toand laws becomeinstitutionsof interestinggood
as afirstand in due time
; Society inquires,Society
more or lessand at last withmatter of course, eager-
andabout the of amelioration,ness, origin political
hands which it wasthe and wrought.head, heart, by
the individualAt the attainedage bycorresponding
ofhe finds his best road to astudent, knowledge
if it be but attainable. It isinHistory Biography,
is andnot that human charactermerely always every-
where to meditative men : it issupremely interesting
in a man's life we see his and that thethat mind;
more we see of his life the better we understand his
and can his and acts.ideas,mind, interpret designs,
Thus we see the student hands
grey-haired lay eager
on the smallest of recordsfragment newly-discovered
which can disclose feature in the character orany