somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
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. 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.
C. V. WedgwoodWithout the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
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