• Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

    Lord Acton: Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.
    John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag