It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not m… - John Robert Seeley

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It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future,