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THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it. It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope. | Eminent Victorians 1 Eminent Victorians Project Gutenberg Etext Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey Copyright laws are changing all over the world be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get Etexts and further information is included below. We need your donations. Title Eminent Victorians Author Lytton Strachey December 2000 Etext 2447 Most recently updated May 11 2003 Project Gutenberg Etext Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey This file should be named or Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER E-Text prepared by Martin Adamson martin@ Project Gutenberg Etexts are usually created from multiple editions all of which are in the Public Domain in the United States unless a copyright notice is included. Therefore we usually do NOT keep any of these books in compliance with any particular paper edition. We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance of the official release dates leaving time for better editing. Please note neither this list nor its contents are final till midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight Central Time of the last day of the stated month. A preliminary version may often be posted for suggestion comment and editing by those who wish to do so. To be sure you have an up to date first edition please check file sizes in the first week of the