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Excerpt from Buckle and His Critics: A Study in Sociology But critics who have equally failed to master the alphabet of coherent judgment have been able by mere volubility to injure to some extent the credit Of a great dead man. Hence, after Buckle's rapid conquest Of fame, there has gone on a mining process Of discredit. The book has always gone on selling: no book still in print keeps up its price better in the second-hand market; and yet it is seldom that a critical reference is now made to Buckle which is not either disrespectful or faint in its praise. This would seem to Show, to ordinary judgment, that his book had become quickly popular by reason of being shallow, and that studious readers had found this out, while the ignorant multitude continued to believe in him. An able writer, it is felt, is likely to be recognised as such by the general run of his critics. It is to countervail this assump tion in the case of Buckle, however, that the following chapters are written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.