John Richard Green Quotes
1837–1883 England
John Richard Green (12 December 1837 – 7 March 1883) was an English historian chiefly known for his 1874 work A Short History of the English People.
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I won't divide by Kings, a system whereby History is made Tory unawares and infants are made to hate History.
As you see in my own Wee-Book, I think moral and intellectual facts as much facts for the historian as military or political facts.
So prodigious has been the store of original documents, charters, rolls, dispatches, memoirs which have of late been disinterred from the archives of the past, that history has retrograded into annals.
I shall never be content till I have superseded Hume, and I believe I shall supersede him—not because I am so good a writer, but because, being an adequate writer, I have a larger and grander conception than he had of the organic life of a nation as a whole.