“But the true historical fervour is the love of the past for the sake of the past… And behind it is the very passion to understand men in their diversity, the desire to study a bygone age in the things in which it differs from the present. The true historical fervour is that of the man for whom the exercise of historical imagination brings its own reward, in those inklings of a deeper understanding, those glimpses of a new interpretative truth, which are the historian’s achievement and his aesthetic delight” HistoryHistorianHistoriographyEnglish Historian Book:The Whig interpretation of history Source: The Whig interpretation of history
“If history could be told in all its complexity and detail it would provide us with something as chaotic and baffling as life itself...” HistoryHistorianHistoriographyEnglish Historian Book:The Whig interpretation of history Source: The Whig interpretation of history