Letter to Bp. Mandell Creighton, Postscript (3 Apr 1887) - Acton, John Dalberg (Lord) | WIST Quotations
ADVICE TO PERSONS ABOUT TO WRITE HISTORY -- DON'T. In the Moral Sciences Prejudice is Dishonesty. A Historian has to fight against temptations special to his mode of life, temptations from Country, Class, Church, College, Party, Authority of talents, solicitation of friends. The most respectable of these influences are the…
