J. B. Bury Quote

All the epochs of the past are only a few of the front carriages, and probably the least wonderful, in the van of an interminable procession.

An Inaugural Lecture, The Science of History (pp. 28-29)

All the epochs of the past are only a few of the front carriages, and probably the least wonderful, in the van of an interminable procession.

All the epochs of the past are only a few of the front carriages, and probably the least wonderful, in the van of an interminable procession.

All the epochs of the past are only a few of the front carriages, and probably the least wonderful, in the van of an interminable procession.

All the epochs of the past are only a few of the front carriages, and probably the least wonderful, in the van of an interminable procession.