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“Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.”

Men Doe Has Beens States Natural Animal Study Men And Women Historian Jane Naturalist Austen

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.”

Ifs Lying Interest Study Events Appearance Surface Seeds Historian Biographies Delightful Utility True Life Too Deep Great Events

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.”

Men War Facts Study Events He Man Fellows Clever Historian Legends Multitudes Involving Large Things

Book:Inhale & exhale

Source: Inhale & exhale

“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future”

Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

“There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.”

Firsts Humans Reason Seems Brain Study Design Divine Atheist Obvious Historian Psychologist Surgeons Sociologists Brain Surgeons Neurologists

Book:Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics

Source: Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics