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.

— Samuel Rawson Gardiner 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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