Voltaire Quote

It is with history, as it is with mathematics and natural philosophy; the field of it is immensely enlarged. The more easy it is to compile newspapers, the more difficult it is at the present day to write history.


A Philosophical Dictionary (Volume 2), History (p. 21)


It is with history, as it is with mathematics and natural philosophy; the field of it is immensely enlarged. The more easy it is to compile...

It is with history, as it is with mathematics and natural philosophy; the field of it is immensely enlarged. The more easy it is to compile...

It is with history, as it is with mathematics and natural philosophy; the field of it is immensely enlarged. The more easy it is to compile...

It is with history, as it is with mathematics and natural philosophy; the field of it is immensely enlarged. The more easy it is to compile...