I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.


Four complete Lord Peter Wimsey novels (ed. Random House Value Publishing, 1982) - ISBN: 9780517395752


I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are...

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are...

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are...

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are...