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2378296The Life of the Weevilhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-life-of-the-weevil-9781465666123/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2093505/240b0ba6-50cf-4597-8932-79dd60161e0a.jpg?v=638383500100270000102102MXNLibrary of AlexandriaInStock/Ebooks/<p>In winter, when the insect takes an enforced rest, the study of numismatics affords me some delightful moments. I love to interrogate its metal disks, the records of the petty things which men call history. In this soil of Provence, where the Greek planted the olive-tree and the Roman planted the law, the peasant finds coins, scattered more or less everywhere, when he turns the sod. He brings them to me and consults me upon their pecuniary value, never upon their meaning. What matters to him the inscription on his treasure-trove! Men suffered of yore, they suffer to-day, they will suffer in the future: to him all history is summed up in that! The rest is sheer futility, a pastime of the idle. I do not possess this lofty philosophy of indifference to things of the past. I scratch the piece of money with my finger-nail, I carefully strip it of its earthy rind, I examine it with the magnifying-glass, I try to decipher its lettering. And my satisfaction is no small one when the bronze or silver disk has spoken. For then I have read a page of humanity, not in books, which are chroniclers open to suspicion, but in records which are, in a manner, living and which were contemporary with the persons and the facts.</p>...2314586The Life of the Weevil102102https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-life-of-the-weevil-9781465666123/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2093505/240b0ba6-50cf-4597-8932-79dd60161e0a.jpg?v=638383500100270000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20229781465666123_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9781465666123_<p>In winter, when the insect takes an enforced rest, the study of numismatics affords me some delightful moments. I love to interrogate its metal disks, the records of the petty things which men call history. In this soil of Provence, where the Greek planted the olive-tree and the Roman planted the law, the peasant finds coins, scattered more or less everywhere, when he turns the sod. He brings them to me and consults me upon their pecuniary value, never upon their meaning. What matters to him the inscription on his treasure-trove! Men suffered of yore, they suffer to-day, they will suffer in the future: to him all history is summed up in that! The rest is sheer futility, a pastime of the idle. I do not possess this lofty philosophy of indifference to things of the past. I scratch the piece of money with my finger-nail, I carefully strip it of its earthy rind, I examine it with the magnifying-glass, I try to decipher its lettering. And my satisfaction is no small one when the bronze or silver disk has spoken. For then I have read a page of humanity, not in books, which are chroniclers open to suspicion, but in records which are, in a manner, living and which were contemporary with the persons and the facts.</p>...9781465666123_Library of Alexandrialibro_electonico_cad76b6d-e406-365d-9d80-0491c069a545_9781465666123;9781465666123_9781465666123Jean-Henri FabreInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/markmoxford-epub-9c680c8d-0d30-4305-bbfb-78ed71b37cf6.epub2022-02-14T00:00:00+00:00Library of Alexandria