![]() "Unfortunately grown-ups don't behave any better." Gombrich's view of history as an adventure will appeal to all ages, but perhaps this book's best recommendation is that it was banned by the Nazis for being "too pacifist". ![]() "Schoolchildren are often intolerant," he explains. ![]() Yet in a final chapter, recalling the rise of Hitler, an older and wiser Gombrich concedes that his optimism was misplaced and that in the last century humanity took "a painful step backwards", betraying the ideals of the Enlightenment. The book's civilising and humanising mission is never in doubt as history unfolds up to the "tolerance, reason and humanity" of the Enlightenment. Like all the best teachers, Gombrich simplifies but never patronises, adding a good measure of humour and charm. He was still working on an English version when he died aged 92. T he German version of this marvellous history for children was written in a mere six weeks in 1935 by an unknown 26-year-old art history graduate who later became known as the distinguished art historian EH Gombrich. Gombrich 25,437 ratings, 4.11 average rating, 2,434 reviews Open Preview A Little History of the World Quotes Showing 31-60 of 69 China is, in fact, the only country in the world to be ruled for hundreds of years, not by the nobility, nor by soldiers, nor even by the priesthood, but by scholars. ![]()
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