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历史是“时光老人”在过去年代的无数领域中间修筑起的巨大的“经验之塔”，要爬上这座古老建筑结构的顶端以便一窥全貌并非易事，在这里，我把打开经验之门的钥匙交给你们。 人类知识的总和之于个体的人，如同母体之于胎儿。本丛书以“脐带”冠名，以强调人类个体与人类知识的联系，并表明本书的主旨“知识的人性化”。 《人类的故事》中，房龙谈笑风生，一路走过多少个世纪，时不时地用绘画和微笑向人们点明故事的

序言

第一章 鸿蒙初辟

第二章 人类初祖

第三章 史前人

第四章 象形文字

第五章 尼罗河流域

第六章 埃及的故事

第七章 美索不达米亚

第八章 苏美尔人

第九章 摩西

第十章 腓尼基人

第十一章 印欧人

第十二章 爱琴海

第十三章 希腊人

第十四章 希腊的城市

第十五章 古希腊人的自治

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Carthage was a plutocracy and the real power of the state lay in the hands of a dozen big ship-owners and mine-owners and merchants who met in the back room of an office and regarded their common Fatherland as a business enterprise which ought to yield them a decent profit.

Of course, such a "plutocracy" was forever at the mercy of the crowd. As long as there was plenty of work and wages were high, the majority of the citizens were quite contented, allowed their "betters" to rule them and asked no embarrassing questions. But when no ships left the harbor, when no ore was brought to the smelting-ovens, when dockworkers and stevedores were thrown out of employment, then there were grumblings and there was a demand that the popular assembly be called together as in the olden days when Carthage had been a self-governing republic.

But just as the Greeks had not loved their Aegean teachers, in this same way did the Romans hate their Etruscan masters. They got rid of them as soon as they could and the opportunity offered itself when Greek merchants discovered the commercial possibilities of Italy and when the first Greek vessels reached Rome.

But once the kings had been driven from the city, the Romans were forced to bridle the power of the nobles, and it took many centuries before they managed to establish a system which gave every free citizen of Rome a chance to take a personal interest in the affairs of his town.

They were less imaginative than the Greeks and they preferred an ounce of action to a pound of words.

He refused to accept battle but forever he followed Hannibal, destroyed everything eatable, destroyed the roads, attacked small detachments and generally weakened the morale of the Carthaginian troops by a most distressing and annoying form of guerilla warfare.

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历史是“时光老人”在过去年代的无数领域中间修筑起的巨大的“经验之塔”，要爬上这座古老建筑结构的顶端以便一窥全貌并非易事，在这里，我把打开经验之门的钥匙交给你们。 人类知识的总和之于个体的人，如同母体之于胎儿。本丛书以“脐带”冠名，以强调人类个体与人类知识的联系，并表明本书的主旨“知识的人性化”。 《人类的故事》中，房龙谈笑风生，一路走过多少个世纪，时不时地用绘画和微笑向人们点明故事的

• 作者：Mc_fly 发布时间：2009-04-30 20:14:17

  作为少儿读物很不错.

• 作者：吨坡 发布时间：2008-10-29 13:06:51

  整体化的知识，知识的整体化，理解历史比了解历史更重要

• 作者：Z 发布时间：2007-10-27 20:58:27

  宽容的naive版。

• 作者：路蚁16 发布时间：2022-12-03 16:07:04

  为童年补分，但是小时候看的不是这一版

• 作者：F 发布时间：2007-10-06 10:48:25

  喜欢的作者，可是还是不善读历史

• 作者：Amita 发布时间：2010-08-07 12:11:43

  = =虎头蛇尾

• 读《人类的故事》

  作者：SophieWu 发布时间：2009-06-09 22:58:50

  读这本中英双语本《人类的故事》（【美】房龙著，秦立彦 冯士新译，广西师范大学出版社，2003年）可费了老劲了，从研一还是研二的时候开始读，期间不知从图书馆预约了几回，借了几回，又续借了几回，又还了几回。末了毕业了，还是没看完，可再也不能去图书馆借了，反正自己也很喜欢，认为是值得收藏的书，于是干脆买了一本回家接着看。

  读这本书如此之慢，除了和我一贯的蜗牛式阅读风格保持一致之外，还有两点原因：其一是我从开始读的时候就立志要把英文版从头读到尾；其二是读到比较不熟悉的地方总是忍不住看看中文，这就一直看下去，往往直到本章结束，之后再又回过头去看英文。

  读这本书如此坚持，除了和我一贯死磕的阅读风格保持一致之外，也还有两点原因：其一是在读前言的时候被深深吸引了，房龙在前言里描述了他在十二三岁时登上鹿特丹的老圣劳伦斯塔顶（Old Saint Lawrence in Rotterdam）的一次经历。他爬过长长的、长长的楼梯，在远离尘世的高高的塔顶倾听那由于距离的遥远而显得柔和飘渺的市井之声；他站在天空和城市之间看着忙碌的蝼蚁般的人们忙忙碌碌，看大地的远方和高高的天空。他说，History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young feet are strong and it can be done.这句话给了我莫大的鼓励。

  其二是我一直喜欢看名家大智写的基础读本，他们腹中丘壑万千，下笔从容淡定，没有噱头、没有做作，胸中风云激荡，笔下波澜不惊。他们用浅显的语言告诉你大智慧，留有让你自己去挖掘的空间和余地。就像茨威格的《人类群星闪耀时》，就像我现在在读的汉斯·昆的《世界宗教寻踪》。后来学术的书读多了、学术论文写多了之后，更深的感觉学术界和普通民众之间的距离太大了。研究者们在学术的世界里用自己发明的一套语言和叙述逻辑写着那些只有同行才能看懂的文章并互相唱和，老百姓渴望知识和文化却只有于丹一类的东西可以聊以充饥。面对于丹现象，十博士发战斗檄文讨于，懂点中国经典的人就忙着给于丹挑错，可是更深的反省或者行动尚在缺席。包括念中文系的学生也是一样，抱着某个最前卫的理论家的文章著作读个昏天黑地，对于人类和欧洲的文化史却所知了了，思辩起来仿佛莫测高深，却总在一些基本的问题上让人跌破眼镜！唉，说远了，从我的读书笔记中摘抄一些《人类的故事》，强烈推荐对人类历史概貌感兴趣的朋友一读，当然，对历史很有研究的朋友就不必再浪费时间了，毕竟我还处在基础阶段 ：）

  The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled to make his home. (P22)

  Gaius Julius Caesar:"veni, vidi, vici", Latin words for "I came, I saw, I conquered." (P113)

  "Power in the state belonged to him who was actually possessed of it".–Pope advised to Pepin the Short (Carolingian, P148)

  If you had heard nothing but hair-raising yarns about cemeteries and coffins and fearful diseases when you were very young, instead of listening to the fairy stories of Andersen and Grimm, you, too, would have lived all your days in a dread of the final hour and the gruesome day of Judgment. That is exactly what happened to the children of the Middle Ages. (“同情的理解”，P200)

  (听听他怎么写中国人)Confucius, he did not think that he could make people over by giving them a lot of new laws. He knew that the only possible salvation would come from a change of heart, and he set out upon the seemingly helpless task of changing the character of his millions of fellows men……The Chinese had never been much interested in religion as we understand that word. They believe in devils and spooks…Confucius is almost the only one among the great moral leaders who did not see visions, who did nor proclaim himself as the messenger of divine power, who did not, at some time or another, claim that he was inspired by voices from above. (P260)

  The progress of the human race is best compared to a gigantic pendulum which forever swings forward and backward. (P265)

  Few things in human life are either entirely good or entirely bad. Few things are either black or white. It is the duty of the honest Chronicler to give a true account of all the good and bad sides of every historical event. It is very difficult to do this because we all have our personal likes and dislikes. But we ought to try and be as fair as we can be, and must not allow our prejudices to influence us too much. (P265-266)

  Erasmus: nothing prevents us from "stating the truth with a smile upon our lips." (P272)

  For tolerance (and please remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much. (P279-280)

  The glory of the common fatherland became the glory of a single dynasty. It meant the exact opposite of the democratic ideal. (P315)

  The great French Revolution proclaims the principles of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality unto all the people of the earth. (P353)

  It is unreasonable to expect that a certain class of society shall commit political and economic suicide for the benefit of another group of fellow citizens. (P360)

  Historical "ifs", as I have often warned you, are never of any value. (P363)

  You will learn many facts, but it is more important to "feel history" than to know it. (P381)

  I want you to learn something more from this history than a mere succession of facts. I want you to approach all historical events in a frame of mind that will take nothing for granted. Don’t be satisfied with the mere statement that "such and such a thing happened then and there." Try to discover the hidden motives behind every action and then you will understand the world around you much better and you will have a greater chance to help others, which (when all is said and done) is the only truly satisfactory way of living. (P391)

  (房龙写这本书的原则) There was but one rule. "Did the country or the person in question produce a new idea or perform an original act without which the history of the entire human race would have been different?" It was not a question of personal taste, it was a matter of cool, almost mathematical judgment. (P475)

  "Nature has set no limits to our hopes", he(Marquis de Condorcet) wrote, "and the picture of the human race, now freed from its chains and marching with a firm tread on the road of truth and virtue and happiness, offers to the philosopher a spectacle which consoles him for the errors, for the crimes and the injustices which still pollute and afflict this earth." (P484)

  There is no definite answer to any historic

  al problem. (P486)

   

  一本教给你知识和智慧的书。

• 我们需要这样一本书

  作者：Von 发布时间：2009-07-29 22:06:03

  第一次用英文读出了战争的屏息和荡气回肠；读出了历史的厚重和引人入胜；读出了文化的传承和交相辉映。

  他如同站在高山之巅，看几千年前的沧海桑田在脚下更替变迁如同过眼云烟。

  他如同舞台上的讲演者，用饱含深情的语调讲述着这片大陆的前世今生。

  他为一座城池的覆灭而扼腕兴叹，为野蛮人对文明的践踏而黯然神伤，为平民一次又一次的惨遭涂炭而挥泪呐喊。

  Why should we ever read fairy stories ,when the truth of history is so much more interesting and entertaining ?

  当我们以旁观者的身份重新审视曾经的那些故事的时候，没有了成功者的完美无暇，也缺少了失败者的一无是处，取而代之的是一个个鲜活的人物和一段段波澜起伏的故事。

  基督教的被打压，不过是他们不满当时的百家争鸣而企图一教独大的咎由自取，穆罕默德为了实现他出人头地的梦想也曾不惜入赘寡居的贵妇人之家。

  朋友说房龙的文字有种举重若轻的大气，可爱又不失庄重，并因为无法忍受世面上那些辞不达意的译文，而自己做了翻译。

  而有些语句竟真的如同我们的诗歌一般，悟的到，却不知如何去翻。

  希腊和波斯间血雨腥风的残酷战争结束后，同仇敌忾的雅典与斯巴达却没有凭此良机化解多年积怨，but后的一个语气词alas，使得那种惋惜跃然纸上。

  如果说最初几章的文化起源还因为读起来有些艰涩而让人提不起多大兴趣的话，那接下来人种族系及文化的传承以及熟悉的历史情节不断涌现便会让人如同读历史小说一般大呼过瘾。

  中学的历史课让我们把过去的事情，特别是把外国的往事，理解成了一个个由时间、地点和人物拼凑成的日志，总以为只有中国的儒道佛思想才会根深蒂固的影响我们千百年。殊不知，在西方基督教和新教上百年的争斗，此消彼长，造就了多少著名的人物和事件，甚至影响到了当今国家和民族的格局。

  了解他们，了解他们的思维和观念，就要了解他们的历史。我们需要这样一本书。