History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
C. V. Wedgwoodsomewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
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.
C. V. WedgwoodGood writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.
C. V. Wedgwood