Analysis Of Will And Ariel Durant's Lessons Of History

Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant was by far the best book that I read about history. In this short book, they reflect their thoughts and comments based on earth, biology, race, character, religion, economics, government, and war. While many of their points were valid and correct I did think that they outdid themselves trying to prove they were correct. Yet again how could you be correct when no one knows the actual truth behind history.
As you know every book has some type of message and I believe the message they were trying to get across was that ideas and stories are the strongest things in history. “Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.” This was a quote in the book, Lessons of History. One can assume that this
Why is it that race is such a bad thing and frowned upon. “It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.” Good reasoning and yet we stand here today with people who reconsider and think about what culture they pursue and want to be apart of. We are all part of some form of biology is what Will and Ariel say, and there are three lessons. 1) “life is competition” 2) “life is selection” 3) “life must breed.” We are all competing for something. It could be food or just resources in general and this is one the things that they point out in which I enjoyed reading about. Now that it comes into mind, competition doesn't just have to be about people or animals. Competition could also be war and I notice that this is one of the things that they point out in the book. While Will and Ariel Durant say, “War is a nation's way of eating.” I disagree. I am sure that sometimes it may seem like a nation creates war to get their way and in some cases that may be true but not in the way they think. I believe war is started because someone disagrees with a person's thought or initially takes something out of proportion and changes the others people's views to make one another look like a bad person. While in some cases the winning side gets something deserving, it
Parents never know anything about their children. “… or are we nearing such moral and social disorder that frightened parents will run back to Mother Church and beg her to discipline their children, at whatever cost to intellectual liberty?” We were at that point but we have grown from it and it can be a good thing. I'd like to think of this time frame where there is no such thing as that and hopefully, I am right. If you take a second to think about it, civilization has a time frame and if we were to destroy it we would all be terrible. We are lucky to have parents that care so much or grandparents or any person in that matter that keep each of us in reach and teach us better. Lessons of History was a passionate book and I enjoyed reading Will and Ariel Durant’s opinion and perspectives on things. I would say it opens your eyes and mind to what was out there before and what could possibly still be here in the world today. We cherish life but we also can take advantage of it. “And to his final breath, he will be grateful for this inexhaustible legacy, knowing that it is our nourishing mother and our lasting