In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.