For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.
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. WedgwoodHistory, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
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