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It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of…

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The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries…
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to…
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too…
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere…
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one…
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to…
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who…

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