J. B. Bury Quotes

• I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.

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  Art   Stars   Dresses  

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• A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

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  History   Facts   Ends  

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• The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

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  Kings   People   Greek  

  "A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great" by J. B. Bury, 2nd edition, (p. 683), 1913.

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• History is a science, no more and no less.

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  History  

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• The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

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  Progress   Atheism   Together  

  J. B. Bury (2014). “A History of Freedom of Thought (Illustrated)”, p.141, Lulu Press, Inc

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