The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.
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About G. M. Trevelyan
G. M. Trevelyan was a 19th-century British historian and academic. George Macaulay Trevelyan was an English historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation