In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty y >>
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins >>
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. >>
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a >>
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recogni >>
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without g >>
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.