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1829–1902 England

Samuel Rawson Gardiner (4 March 1829 – 24 February 1902) was an English historian who specialized in 17th-century English history as a prominent foundational historian of the Puritan revolution and the English Civil War.

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The statesman uses his imagination to predict the result of changes to be produced in the actually existing state of society, either by the natural forces which govern it, or by his own action. The historian uses his imagination in tracing out the causes which produced that existing state of society.

History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642, Vol. X. 1641–1642 (1884)

To the historian no more interesting period can be found than one in which men of virtue and ability strove with one another in seeking the solution of the highest problems at a time when the old chain of precedent had been violently snapped, and when all things seemed possible to the active intelligence.

The Fall of the Monarchy of Charles I. 1637–1649 (1882)

The more of a student he is—and no one can be a historian without being a very devoted student—the more he is removed from that intimate contact with men of all classes and of all modes of thought, from which the statesman derives by far the greater part of that knowledge of mankind which enables him to give useful play to his imaginative power for their benefit.

History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642, Vol. X. 1641–1642 (1884)

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