John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton Quote

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned — the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.


The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)


Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor...

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor...

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor...

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor...