H. A. L. Fisher Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”
-- H. A. L. Fisher

#Destiny #Play #Development
“It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.”
-- H. A. L. Fisher

#Christian #Europe #Civilization
“The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.”
-- H. A. L. Fisher

#Nature #Law #Progress
“Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.”
-- H. A. L. Fisher

#Political #Radical Change #Belief
“Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.”
-- H. A. L. Fisher

#Race #Europe #Doe
“History is one damn thing after another.”
-- H. A. L. Fisher

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