“The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.” MenHistoryIgnoranceMaterialsOughtEvidenceHistorianDozenBondageInabilityHumiliating Author:C. V. Wedgwood
“History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.” GivingHumansTwoActionEasyStuffHistoryRecordsMaterialsPatternsImpressionInchesHuman Actions Author:C. V. Wedgwood
