A Few Words on Junius and Macaulay
[Herman Merivale]
Genre: | Essay, Obituary |
Subjects: | Palaeontology, Comparative Anatomy, Historiography |
People mentioned: | William Paley |
Compares the historical judgement of Thomas B Macaulay with the palaeontology of Georges Cuvier, who, if you gave him 'a tarsal bone, he constructed you, with unerring certainty, a humming-bird or an elephant'. Also notes that the recently deceased Macaulay was 'at once the most Paleyan and the most forensic of historical inquirers'. (259) | |
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