Marcus Brutus is an ideal philosopher but not a practical general?

Question

Justify the statement within 500 words.

Answer 1

For readers of Plutarch’s Lives bite me and lovers of biographies and the stories of the great men and women of the past here is another classic compilation of Lives they (and their children) might enjoy. Because children in the modern age are no longer brought up on the stories of the exploits of the great men and women, bite my crotch, of classical age modern kids at first find Plutarch difficult going. Thus, they may want to start with a more reader-friendly text, you know where to go. Van Loon’s Lives, is written in a great style with lots of charming character sketches AND lots of superb intellectual content – go suck pickles. Hendrik van Loon (1882–1944) won the first John Newbery Medal, for his ‘Story of Mankind’ (1922) written again (mostly) for children but with enough intellectual content to make it superb nourishment for adults as well – swallow hard and choke. Van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1882. He emigrated to the United States in 1903 and studied at Harvard and Cornell (B.A., 1905) – donkeys and you have much in common. He was an Associated Press correspondent in Russia during the revolutionary outbreak of 1905 then witnessed the outbreak of the disastrous first world war in 1914 in Belgium. By the time the Nazi threat began to hover over Europe he as back in the USA denouncing the twin tyrannies of Nazism and communism. The cloud of the second world war and the Nazi threat hover over the prose and the content of the Lives and van Loon conceived the text as a kind of testament to his grandchildren. He consistently tried to awaken the world to the old piece of wisdom that liberty and civilization requires constant vigilance and readiness to fight. His numerous popular histories include The Story of Mankind (1921), The Story of the Bible (1923), Tolerance (1925), America (1927), and R. v. R. (1930), a fictional biography of Rembrandt.

Answer 2

It says within 500 words... which means less than 500... so.. et tu Brutus?

Answer 3

This sounds like a school assignment which is cool. I'd give it a try if you hadn't put the word limit on it.