Herbert Butterfield Quote

The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history...It is the essence of what we mean by the word 'unhistorical'


The Whig Interpretation of History (1931), 31–2


The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history...It is the essence of what we ...

The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history...It is the essence of what we ...

The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history...It is the essence of what we ...

The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history...It is the essence of what we ...