Herbert Butterfield Quote

If history can do anything it is to remind us of those complications that undermine our certainties, and to show us that all our judgements are merely relative to time and circumstance.... we can never assert that history has proved any man right in the long run.


The Whig Interpretation of History (1931)


If history can do anything it is to remind us of those complications that undermine our certainties, and to show us that all our judgements are...

If history can do anything it is to remind us of those complications that undermine our certainties, and to show us that all our judgements are...

If history can do anything it is to remind us of those complications that undermine our certainties, and to show us that all our judgements are...

If history can do anything it is to remind us of those complications that undermine our certainties, and to show us that all our judgements are...