“If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.” IfsCan DoCircumstancesJudgmentRelative Book:The Whig interpretation of history Source: The Whig interpretation of history
“The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.” IfsWritingHas BeensStoriesPastScienceCertainSidesPrinciplesHistorySuccessfulProgressProduceRevolutionPraiseTendenciesInterpretationHistorianProtestantsGlorification Book:The Whig interpretation of history Source: The Whig interpretation of history
“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.” IfsThinkingGodHistoryHappeningsBreaths Author:Herbert Butterfield
