• History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

    G. M. Trevelyan: History is the open Bible:  we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly:  our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
    G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”