The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the ….

The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the ….

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority..