It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
C. V. Wedgwoodhistorical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
C. V. WedgwoodMy 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.
C. V. WedgwoodDemocracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
C. V. WedgwoodAll 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.
C. V. Wedgwood