A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the b… - C. V. Wedgwood
My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the b…
- C. V. Wedgwood
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we … - C. V. Wedgwood
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we …
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics. - C. V. Wedgwood
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction. - C. V. Wedgwood
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. - C. V. Wedgwood
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it… - C. V. Wedgwood
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it…
International politics, by and large, are a depressing study. - C. V. Wedgwood
International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.
All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a … - C. V. Wedgwood
All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a …
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation. - C. V. Wedgwood
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