出版时间:2006-9 出版社:万卷出版公司 作者:查尔斯·爱略特 编 页数:365
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内容概要
Few books besides the Bible have been translated ,printed, and read as often as the Pilgrim's Progress. John Banyans classic allegory of christian ,the Pilgrim, on his perilous journey to the Celestial city has touched hearts and minds for more than theree hundred years-and still the demand continues .the best part of English Puritanism has here its most adequate and characteristic expression, while the intensity of Bunyan's religious fervor and the universality of the spiritual problems he deals wits have elevated the work into a great religious classic of the world. The Life of Dordogne was written by Walton in 1640 as an introduction to a collection of Donne's sermons; and thirythy years later was issued in volume with lives of Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, and George Herbert, the charming personality of Walton himself, and the clarity and delicacy of a style of high artistic simplicity ,set off a narrative in whichfacts are not allowed to obscure the outlines of a character drawn with loving admiration,Fwe bulky official lives succeed in giving readers so vivid a picture of personality as these aketches from the hand of lzaak Walton.
作者简介
查尔斯•爱略特(Charles W. Eliot,1834-1926)生于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿。他在哈佛以全班第二名毕业,留校任教。1869年被任命为哈佛大学校长,年仅35岁,并担任了40年(1869-1909)之久的校长。在此期间,他大胆改革课程设置,鼓励学生选修课程,增辟三所学院,改善法
书籍目录
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESSTHE FIRST PART THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS,IN THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM THE CONCLUSIONTHE SECOND PART THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS,IN THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM THE AUTHOP VINDICATION OF HIS PILGRIM,FOUND AT THE END OF HIS HOLY WARTHE LIFE OF OR.DONNETHE LIFE OF MR.GEORGE HERBERT
章节摘录
The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation, and to its habit of thought, and nowise transferable to other states of society. In this country, we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people, which they still express with sufficient fidelity ,-and we ostentatiously prefer them to any other in history. They are not better, but only fitter for us. We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form, but to other states of society, in which religion consecrated the monarchical, that and not this was expedient. Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment of the present time accords better with it. Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence with the spirit of the age, have not any exemption from the practical defects which have discredited other forms. Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties into which each State divides itself of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government. Parties are also founded on instincts, and have better guides to their own humble aims than the sagacity of their leaders. They have nothing perverse in their origin, but rudely mark some real and lasting relation. We might as wisely reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves. Our quarrel with them begins, when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and, obeying personal considerations, throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points, nowise belonging to their system. A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we cannot extend the same character to their leaders. They reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct. Ordinarily, our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle; as, the planting interest inconflict with the commercial; the party of capitalists, and that of operatives; parties which are identical in their moral character, and which can easily change ground with each other, in the support of many of their measures. Parties of principle, as, religious sects, or the party of freetrade, of universal suffrage, of abolition of slavery, of abolition of capital punishment, degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm. The vice of our leading parties in this country (which may be cited as a fair specimen of these societies of opinion) is, that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled, but lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure, nowise useful to the commonwealth. Of the two great parties, which, at this hour, almost share the nation between them, I should say, that, one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men. The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man will, of course, wish to cast his vote with the democrat, for free-trade, for wide suffrage, for the abolition of legal cruelties in the penal code, and for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberalities. They have not at heart the ends which give to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it. The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless: it is not loving, it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant. From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
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胡适先生称《哈佛经典》为“奇书”:“奇书,指是日所送来的《五尺丛书》,又名《哈佛丛书》,是哈佛大学校长伊里鹗(Eliot)主编之丛书,收集古今名著,印成50巨册,长约五英尺,故有“五尺”之名。我国著名语言学家、哲学家赵元任先生更加认同《哈佛经典》:“我浏览了《哈佛经典》(Harvard Classics),虽然我想不久离开芝加哥,我仍然买了一套《哈佛经典》。”北京师范大学著名心理学教授陈会昌先生向学生推荐:“《哈佛经典》是美国哈佛大学所有学生必修的课程,是哈佛大学建校以来著名教授们经多年选择确定的人类最重要的学术遗产清单。学习这些著名,同时也是对学生进行人文精神教育。通过学习这门课程,学生们可以了解自古代希腊、罗马以来人类历史上影响最大的一些人文学术著作,包括历史学、政治学、伦理学、宗教、文学、戏剧、经济学等各方面内容。向我国大学生介绍这份清单,可以帮助我们了解,国外的大学生接受什么教育,他们平时读什么书,可能具备什么人文知识,他们可能会形成什么样的价值观念。” ——新华社《新华网》
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《哈佛经典(全套50册)》:“先有哈佛,后有美国”就像两千多年前的雅典学院,或者中国山东曲阜的"杏坛",哈佛已经取得人类文化教育上的"经典"地位。从1636年建校至今,哈佛已培养出了7位美国总统、40名诺贝尔奖得主和30名普利策奖获奖者。这是一个高不可攀的纪录。在360多年的历史发展过程中,它在所有的专业领域中都追求着独一无二的名牌大学的水平,在《美国新闻与世界报道》的美国最好的大学排行榜中长年位居榜首。它培养了数不清的社会精英,其中包括政治家、科学家、企业家、作家、学者和卓有成就的新闻记者。在全美500家最大的财团中有2/3的决策经理毕业于哈佛商学院。星光璀璨的哈佛学子遍布世界各地。我国从哈佛毕业而负有盛名的学者有:现代科学教育的开拓者和物理学界的先驱胡刚复,现代地理学和气象学的奠基人竺可桢,史学家、古文字学家陈寅恪,作家、语言学家林语堂,文学家、翻译家梁实秋,建筑学家梁思成,以及美籍中国电子专家王安、建筑专家贝聿铭等等。哈佛人以"先有哈佛,后有美国"而自豪。在1775-1783年这8年美国独立战争中,几乎所有著名的革命者都是哈佛当年的毕业生。如美国《独立宣言》起草人之一、美国第二任总统约翰·亚当斯1755年毕业于哈佛。1775年7月3日,乔治·华盛顿在哈佛学院所在地坎布里奇就任北美独立战争军队的统帅,其司令部也曾设在这里。而美国第三任总统、《独立宣言》主要起草人托马斯·杰弗逊和美国联邦最高法院首任首席大法官约翰·杰伊等人均荣获哈佛荣誉法学博士学位。《哈佛经典》与哈佛的魅力为什么能从哈佛走出那么多杰出的人才?它的魅力到底从何而来呢?事实上,哈佛开启了美国人文学为中心的教育传统。哈佛的校训是用拉丁文写的,译成中文是:"与柏拉图为友,与亚里士多德为友,更与真理为友"。这个校训突出的有两点,一是哈佛重视传统,尤其是以柏拉图、亚里士多德为代表的希腊的人文理性的传统,相信在伟大的传统中有永远的智慧,所以在哈佛不大可能出现全盘反传统、全盘反历史的迷狂;二是强调追求真理是最高的原则,无论是世俗的权贵,还是神圣的权威都不能代替真理,都不能折服人对真理的追求。就是这两个原则的相互作用、相互补充,保证了哈佛能够在一个伟大的谱系中继往开来、传承创造,不断地推陈出新,这就是哈佛的魅力,它永久地激动着一代又一代年轻学子的渴望和梦想。哈佛是美国精神的代表。哈佛也是世界人文的奇迹。所谓代表,所谓奇迹,在于这个大学传授给学子的生命精神以及方法本身。哈佛是一个理想主义的产物。自由、辩论、模拟现实乃至就是现实本身的案例,头脑的风暴和实践的打磨,需要你知识的不断扩大,更需要你实践的应变,还有你的坚忍。仿佛苏格拉底和柏拉图在哈佛现代地再生。这个过程是一个塑造的程序,走过这个程序,学生就变得与众不同。那么,这个大学如何看待人类的知识,用这些知识来形塑哈佛的精英?显然,知识、方法和人的互动构成了哈佛的奇迹。奇迹从来都是可以解释的。除非你放弃解释。哈佛将人类几十个世纪积累的知识作为哈佛学生的知识基础,在这个基础上才能升华出所谓的奇迹与魅力。而将哈佛的魅力承载起来的,就是《哈佛经典》。50卷的《哈佛经典》是哈佛学子如此优秀的基础。因为哈佛大学的影响力和几百年来学子的贡献力,自1901年问世至今,《哈佛经典》已经成为西方家庭的必备藏书,是西方生接受古代和近代文明教育的权威读物。在《哈佛经典》这部丛书里,你会看到精英的文化本质。不知道为什么,一听见《哈佛经典》,笔者的大脑总是涌出一些意象。是美国的风格,可以入画,但浮萦着一种情绪。这些人和这些人的文字已经进入哈佛经典,而我的奇怪在于,为什么眼前全是美国的意象?……我更愿意想像美国独立战争时期,在壁炉中的木柴燃烧的火光里,富兰克林捧着书的专注,或者时光迤俪地行来,二战时候,罗斯福总统的炉边谈话,或者还可以是林肯斜躺在客店的床上,演算着《几何原本》,或者是梭罗的《瓦尔登湖》和惠特曼的"草叶"?……经典是世界所有文明的经典,但哈佛的编辑则使之富有美国的精神。走进《哈佛经典》《哈佛经典》是一套反映人类认识和探索世界的思想性读物。《哈佛经典》,由哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W. ELIOT)任主编,联合哈佛大学及美国其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授历时4年完成。该套丛书自1901年问世至今,畅销100年。与其他名著丛书只是将人类史上百部或50部名著列入一个系列不同,《哈佛经典》旨在囊括人类有史以来至19世纪最优秀的社会科学和自然科学文献,以向现代读者展示人类观察、记录、发明和思想演变的进程。查尔斯·爱略特(Charles W. Eliot,1834-1926)生于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿。他在哈佛以全班第二名毕业,留校任教,1869年被任命为哈佛大学校长时,年仅35岁,任期达40年(1869-1909)之久。爱略特来自哈佛并了解哈佛,更热爱哈佛,在此期间,他大胆改革课程设置,鼓励学生选修课程,增辟三所学院,改善法学院和医学院的水准,使哈佛的教职员工增加10倍,学生增加4倍,哈佛成为世界最顶尖的大学之一。因此,他也重塑了哈佛。1890年,爱略特被任命为美国国家教育委员会主席,大力改革美国中学教育的课程。正是半个世纪成功的教育生涯使爱略特知道,一个现代的文明人应当具备那些知识与那些素养。于是,他开始编篡哈佛经典,解密哈佛魅力的来源。1909年,任《哈佛经典》(五尺丛书)主编。听爱略特的自序更能把握一个使命感和理想主义者的行为。“我选编《哈佛经典》,旨在为认真、执著的读者提供文学养分,他们将可以从中大致了解人类从古代直至19世纪末观察、记录、发明以及想象的进程。在这50卷书、约22000页的篇幅内,我试图为一个20世纪概念上的文化人提供获取所必需的古代和现代知识的手段。作为一个20世纪的文化人,他不仅理所当然的要有开明的理念或思维方法,而且还必须拥有一座人类从蛮荒发展到文明的进程中所积累起来的、有文字记载的关于发现、经历、以及思索的宝藏。我打算对这座宝藏进行认真筛选,以让每个在心智上积极进取的美国家庭好好利用,尽管他们早期接受教育的机会甚少。因此,我们选编《哈佛经典》的目的与其他各类系列丛书大相径庭,他们只不过是选上100本或50本世界上最好的书籍而已,那样最多只是向善于思考的读者奉献了一幅使他们的思想得以充实、锤炼和升华的历史长卷。”从学科领域来看,涵盖了历史、传记、哲学、宗教、游记、自然科学、政府与政治、教育、评论、戏剧、叙事和抒情诗、散文等各大学科领域。从文化的代表性来看,展现了希腊、罗马、法国、意大利、西班牙、英国、苏格兰、德国、美国等西方国家古代和近代文明的最优秀成果;也撷取了中国、印度、希伯来、阿拉伯、斯堪的纳维亚、爱尔兰文明最有代表性的作品。从年代来看,从最古老的宗教经典和作为西方文明起源的古希腊和罗马文化,到东方、意大利、法国、斯堪的纳维亚、爱尔兰、英国、德国、拉丁美洲的中世纪文化,其中包括意大利、法国、德国、英国、苏格兰、西班牙等国文艺复兴时期的思想;到意大利、法国三个世纪、德国两个世纪、英格兰3个世纪和美国更多世纪的现代文明;从特色来看,她纳入了17、18、19世纪科学发展的最权威文献;收集了近代以来最有影响的随笔、历史文献、前言、后记,为读者进入某一学科领域起到了引导的作用。哈佛大学的成功已经证明了《哈佛经典》的价值。
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