{"id":31326,"date":"2023-08-22T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31326"},"modified":"2023-08-20T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:44:28","slug":"from-the-durant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/22\/from-the-durant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Our Oriental Heritage<\/em>, page 373:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it would be unfair to judge the people from their kings; virtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s talking about the Persians now and the splendid barbarities they paid upon traitors (painful death, razing whole villages in a manner characteristic of a militaristic leader to come later).<\/p>\n<p>However, the quote reminded me a lot of Tolstoy:  &#8220;All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Story of Civilization series differs from most histories, though, that the Durants spend a lot of time covering non-militaristic and non-Great Man threads of history, focusing on the arts and commerce of civilizations especially under the more enlightened leaders of each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Our Oriental Heritage, page 373: But it would be unfair to judge the people from their kings; virtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history. He&#8217;s talking about the Persians now and the splendid barbarities they paid upon traitors (painful death, razing whole villages in a manner characteristic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-durant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31328,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31326\/revisions\/31328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}