In the canon
The History of Civilization in Europe
François Guizot
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1828
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 300
The lecture hall at the Sorbonne could not hold the crowd. Students sat on the steps and stood at the back to hear a professor, silenced for years by a nervous government, take up the largest question anyone could ask: why did Europe, alone, never stop moving?
Civilisation is a fact, and one as susceptible of being studied, described, and related, as any other in history.
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