Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
Interpretation
Intellectual honesty is crucial for historians in free societies, but it is often not fully achieved.
In a free society, historians are expected to exhibit intellectual honesty, meaning they should present facts and truths without bias or deception. However, Morison suggests that while this expectation is prevalent, the fulfillment of such honesty is rare, highlighting a gap between public expectation and actual practice in historical scholarship.
In practice
In a lecture about the importance of ethics in historical writing.
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