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Quotes from On postmodernism; Return to Essentials — Geoffrey Elton

1921–1994 Germany

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We historians are, in a way, fighting for our lives. Certainly, we are fighting for the lives of innocent young people beset by devilish tempters who claim to offer higher forms of thought and deeper truths and insights – the intellectual equivalent of crack, in fact. Any acceptance of these theories – even the most gentle or modest bow in their direction – can prove fatal.

On postmodernism; Return to Essentials (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Geoffrey Elton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.