Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.
Christopher Hill

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Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as the lunatic fringe.
- Christopher Hill

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them. Christopher Hill

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.
Christopher Hill