Historical Composition Quotes by Herbert Butterfield

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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…
• In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.
• It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is…

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