History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.


Clio, a muse: and other essays (ed. Ayer Co Pub, 1930)

G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it...

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it...

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it...

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it...