„This book is not a history. Rather it is an attempt to establish analytical tools that will assist the understanding of history“

Origine: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 388

Origine: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. V, Reason in Science, Ch. 2 "History"
Contesto: History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all, if memory and faith in memory were not what science necessarily rest on. In order to sift evidence we must rely on some witness, and we must trust experience before we proceed to expand it. The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.

Origine: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Two, "The Myth of Barter", p. 22

Origine: The Historian (2005), Ch. 39
Contesto: I’ve always been interested in foreign relations. It’s my belief that the study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.

Origine: Art Worlds (1982), p. 230.

George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume (London: Methuen, 1946) p. 120.

Origine: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 38.

Introduction to the 2002 edition, p. 12
The Heart of Change, (2002)

~ Novalyne Price Ellis, One Who Walked Alone, p. 64, ISBN 093798678X
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Origine: Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 6 : Reading architectural herstories : The discourses of gender

Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1848).
Contesto: The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishement of an absolute tyrrany over her... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective to the franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of wich she has no voice...
Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, her has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.

The Last Page, p. 16.
A History of Reading (1996)

As quoted in LIFE magazine (December 1988) http://www.humancondition.info/Beyond/ScienceReligion.html

Episode 13: "The Long Childhood"
The Ascent of Man (1973)

Ibid. (May 30, 2014) Part 2, Democracy Now!

If You Want Success (Screenland Interview) (1961)

Life of Frederick the Great, Bk. XVI, ch. 1.
1860s

A Course of Positive Philosophy (1832 - 1842) [Six volumes]

Origine: Addiction to Perfection (1982), pp. 186–7