Our conception of the past is not drawn from its own records, but from books written about it, containing not the facts, but a view of the facts which has shaped itself in the mind of somebody of our own or a very recent time.


Inaugural Address: Delivered to the University of St. Andrews (p. 14), Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. 1867

John Stuart Mill Quotes

Our conception of the past is not drawn from its own records, but from books written about it, containing not the facts, but a view of the facts...

Our conception of the past is not drawn from its own records, but from books written about it, containing not the facts, but a view of the facts...

Our conception of the past is not drawn from its own records, but from books written about it, containing not the facts, but a view of the facts...

Our conception of the past is not drawn from its own records, but from books written about it, containing not the facts, but a view of the facts...