An historical event cannot be isolated from its circumstances, any more than the onion from its skins, because an event is itself nothing but a set of circumstances, none of which will ever recur.


Clio, A Muse and Other Essays (1913)

G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

An historical event cannot be isolated from its circumstances, any more than the onion from its skins, because an event is itself nothing but a set...

An historical event cannot be isolated from its circumstances, any more than the onion from its skins, because an event is itself nothing but a set...

An historical event cannot be isolated from its circumstances, any more than the onion from its skins, because an event is itself nothing but a set...

An historical event cannot be isolated from its circumstances, any more than the onion from its skins, because an event is itself nothing but a set...