“The historian is never more himself than when he is searching his mind for a general statement that shall in itself give the hint of its own underlying complexity.” WritingHistoryComplexityHistorianThe Past Book:The Whig interpretation of history Source: The Whig interpretation of history
“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 be under the wrath of God themselves; for, like those who write of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy or on Spanish politics, they seem to become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe.” WritingKindSometimesStatesSeemsDifficultFieldsHistorianWrathControversyAlchemyLunacyWrath Of God Book:The Origins of Modern Science Source: The Origins of Modern Science
“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
