Thursday, August 29, 2024
History
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), First and Last (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1911), p. 155:
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Those who travel about England for their pleasure, or, for that matter, about any part of Western Europe, rightly associate with such travel the pleasure of history; for history adds to a man, giving him, as it were, a great memory of things—like a human memory, but stretched over a far longer space than that of one human life. It makes him, I do not say wise and great, but certainly in communion with wisdom and greatness.
