No heart is pure that is not passionate; no virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. And such an enthusiastic virtue Christ was to introduce. - John Robert Seeley

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No heart is pure that is not passionate; no virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. And such an enthusiastic virtue Christ was to introduce.

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About John Robert Seeley

Sir John Robert Seeley (10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895) was an English historian and essayist.

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Alternative Names: Sir John Robert Seeley J. R. 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,

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