" The historian has a habit of saying of people in the past: 'I think they may well be considered worthy of praise, allowing for the ideas of their times.' There will never be really good history until the historian says, ‘I think they were worthy of praise, allowing for the ideas of my time. "

― G.K. Chesterton , The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 33: The Illustrated London News 1923-1925