The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.
Herbert ButterfieldTag: history
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The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".
Herbert ButterfieldTag: history liberals historians whigs
If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.
Herbert ButterfieldTag: history
History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.
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