The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with … - C. V. Wedgwood

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In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

C. V. Wedgwood

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.

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