History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

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About Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould was a 19th-century English priest and scholar. Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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