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“somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.”

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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

“All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.”

Way Humans States Past Nations Interest Human Beings History Danger Healthy Normal Glory Constitution Obsession Preoccupation Morbid Overshadowing

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“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.”

“My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.”

Should Years Different Facts Eye My Own History Impossible Deductions Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.”

Beautiful Individual Causes All Things Dust Paradox

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.”

Knows Men Giving May Littles Matter Action Courses Asks Wish Advice Duty Stress Asking Lays Intention Determine Various Firm Enlightened Expediency Giving Advice

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.”

Men Should May Conscience Every Man Nevertheless Interiors Dwelling Unfaithful Better Man

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.”

Knows Real Feelings Prayer Depth Devotion Inward

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.”

Men World Fall Taken Objects Duty Lessons Gods Will Checks Rising Perpetual Inward

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

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