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Excerpt from History of England, Vol. 10 of 10: From the Accession of James I. To the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603 1642
Still greater, however, than the pleasure of bringing drud gery to an end, is that of being able to break new ground again. When, a year ago, the demand for this edition called me off from the work of writing the history of the Civil War, I had reached as far asthe preparations for the siege of Read ing in April 1643, and I shall be glad to take up the interrupted thread.
The time spent upon reviewing old work has, however, I trust, not been wholly lost. Especially in the early volumes something has been done to assimilate new information to the old, and to correct or tone down crude reflections. Imperfect as every attempt of this kind must be, from the impossibility of absolutely recasting the original work, what I have to offer is, perhaps, not quite so imperfect as it was, though I have become aware of a certain want of artistic proportlon ln the book as a whole, and can perceive that some incidents have been treated of at greater length than they deserve.
Something too has been gained by the opportunity afforded me for reconsidering the Whole ground on which I have taken my stand. It is impossible to publish ten volumes of history without being led to face the question whether the knowledge acquired by the historian has any practical bearing on the pro blems of existing society - whether, in short, if, as has been said, history is the politics of the past, the historian is likely to be able to give better advice than other people on the politics of the present.
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