“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.”
Quote by C. V. Wedgwood
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C. V. Wedgwood
C.V. Wedgwood was an individual active in an unknown field during the 20th century. His life and achievements are not well-documented, but it is believed that he may have made contributions to the field. more