G. M. Trevelyan Quote

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)


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...