Bulfinch’s Age of Chivalry

One of the advantages of the Kindle (and other ebook readers) is that I can use it to fill the gaps in my education by reading the classic books I never got around to reading. Especially since you can load up on free classic books off Project Gutenberg and Kindle Free Classics.

So I downloaded Bulfinch’s “Age of Chivalry”, and the very first paragraph:

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which tends to make us happier and better can be called useful, then we claim that epithet for our subject. For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Ah. I’m gonna like this book, I think.

-JM