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1 " Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. "
― George Macaulay Trevelyan
2 " We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers. "
3 " Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization. "
4 " Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading "
5 " The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passion, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow. "
6 " Without social history, economic history is barren and political history is unintelligible. "
― George Macaulay Trevelyan , English Social History - A Survey of Six Centuries - Chaucer to Queen Victoria
7 " The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockrow. "
