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If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and...

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Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... th...

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The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely...

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Herbert Butterfield

Born: 1900-10-07

Died: 1979-07-20

Herbert Butterfield (October 7, 1900 – July 20, 1979) was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for a slim volume entitled, The Whig Interpretation of History (1931).More