...was when it existed. That, I think, must have been the reason for Lord Acton's charge: " I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which...

...was when it existed. That, I think, must have been the reason for Lord Acton's charge: "I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which...

...protest against the general indifference):—' The weight of opinion is against me, when I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty...

..."never to debase the moral currency, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong." He could have no finer epitaph. BOOK REVIEWS EAHLT BABTLONIAN LETTERS FROM LARSA. HENRY...

...conception of the function of history, which he held to be primarily ethical. " I exhort you," he says, " never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty...

...contemporary character is to be wise in time. And, if Acton is right in enjoining upon students of history ' to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict,' then there is the more reason for Clio, should she, too, wish to serve the State, to be up and doing...

...successors in taking leave of them: "To trj others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong." Lectures on Modem History, Macmillan and Co., 1918, page 24.—TRANSLATOR.] CHAPTER XXXIII...

...never to debase the moral currency, but to try others by the same maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong." Sismondi was equally emphatic on the moral mission of the historian. " There is for the...

...cruelty and callous brutality, we must proceed with some circumspection. Lord Acton's exhortation— " never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong,"—this exhortation, I say, fine and inspiring though it is, is a counsel of perfection which...

...analyze the characters of historical personages. We have been solemnly advised, in studying history, "never to debase the moral currency or to lower the...standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty...