Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field seem sometimes to… - Herbert Butterfield
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field seem sometimes to…
- Herbert Butterfield
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the wo… - Herbert Butterfield
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the wo…
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 the stor… - Herbert Butterfield
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 the stor…
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too deligh… - Herbert Butterfield
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too deligh…
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of m… - Herbert Butterfield
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of m…
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to h… - Herbert Butterfield
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to h…
If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance. - Herbert Butterfield
If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves. - Herbert Butterfield
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere ep… - Herbert Butterfield
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere ep…
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