Herbert Butterfield Quote

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history, but their discovery is the glory of historical research. History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.


The Whig interpretation of history (ed. 1931)


Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history,...

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history,...

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history,...

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history,...