It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what is of lasting importance to the human race.

The proper limits of Government interference are relative to the nature of each particular state and the stage of its civilisation. It is a matter of great imp…

Party historians go to the past for party purposes; they seek to read into the past the controversies of the present.

The right method in any particular case must be largely determined by the nature of the problem.

[...] nicht das Amt die Vergangenheit zu richten, die Mitwelt zum Nutzen zukunftiger Jahre zu belehren, sondern blo? zu zeigen, wie es eigentlich gewesen ist.

I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimil…