The Rise of Historical Criticism: Quotes

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• "Free criticism is as unknown as free trade."

  Part I

• "Herodotus wrote to illustrate the wonderful ways of Providence and the nemesis that falls on sin, and his work is a good example of the truth that nothing can dispense with criticism so much as a moral aim."

  Part II

• "Herodotus would have believed in Scipio's dream. Thucydides would have ignored it entirely. Polybius explains it."

  Part IV

• "Polybius was one of those many men who are born too late to be original."

  Part IV

• "Greek philosophy began and ended in scepticism: the first and the last word of Greek history was Faith."

  Part IV

• "The only spirit which is entirely removed from us is the mediæval; the Greek spirit is essentially modern."

  Part IV