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We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Seeley

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

John Seeley

Religion says, "Let man be silent, and listen when God speaks." Science says, "Let us interrogate Nature, and let us be sure that the answer we get is really Nature's, and not a mere echo of our own voice."

John Seeley

No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

John Seeley

Nature, even if we hesitate to call it good, is infinitely interesting, infinitely beautiful.

John Seeley

John Seeley

John Seeley

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Born: September 10, 1834

Died: January 13, 1895 (aged 60)

Bio: Sir John Robert Seeley was an English essayist and historian.

Known for:

The Expansion of England (1883)
Growth of British policy (1895)
Ecce Homo (1865)
Life and times of Stein
Lectures and Essays (1870)

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