One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.