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We are after all more interested in the out-of-date than in the up-to-date.'ДЄmong those resonating names are TH Huxley, Alfred North Whitehead, Algernon Swinburne and Peter Kropotkin. More recent editions have lost, I believe, much of the antiquarian flavour that recommends it to us.

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'The is full of names that resonate in all fields of the arts and sciences. Norman Kane, an American rare book dealer of over 50 years experience, only recently parted ways with his 11th, and that decision was a reluctant result of a cross-country move. It's among antiquarian booksellers that the 11th enjoys its highest reputation. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten вЂ“ except by the historians, scholars, and antiquarian booksellers who champion the 11th for this quality. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. Arabs are noted for a propensity to be 'cruel' and 'crafty,' and Africans 'appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man'.Дespite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. The Vietnamese are the 'worst-built and ugliest of all the Indo-Chinese,' while the Chinese are 'inferior in character' to Europeans. This was written 30 years before the horrors of Nazi Germany. The entry on antisemitism states that it is 'a passing phase in the history of culture'. Interpreted for you by the rich, the white, and the expensively educated. The Edwardian world was finely ordered in the way an encyclopedia needs the world to be finely ordered: everything, and everyone, in their place. Unabashed optimism вЂ“ and unabashed racism вЂ“ pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics. The 11th edition of the Britannica represents the high tide of optimism and belief in human progress that had dominated the Anglo-Saxon vision since the Enlightenment. To open an 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is to open a worldview lost forever in the staggering slaughter of the first world war. Four years later, the confidence and optimism that had produced the 11th would be, as he puts it, 'a casualty in the slaughter at Ypres and the Argonne.''ДЄnd he's right.

He said it was the last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view. Jacobs continued, 'I think Hans Koning of the New Yorker nailed the appeal 30 years ago. But its durability goes deeper than that. The 11th is exceptionally well written, the first encyclopedia where readability was courted in addition to scholarship. He said that 'compared to more modern editions, reading the 11th is like reading a Faulkner novel instead of an instruction manual.' I spoke with Jacobs about the lasting appeal of the 11th. He wrote about his experience in the well-received book The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. So, why the appeal? AJ Jacobs, an American journalist, read his way through the entirety of the 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica published in 2002. The siren call of its 28 leather-bound volumes works a subtle magic on antiquarians, historians, booksellers, and scholars around the world. Published between 19, the 11th edition continues to inspire a religious reverence from its loyal adherents. As the last sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica prepare to sink into obscurity, there's one edition that will always remain a collector's item: the 11th.

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