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John Robert Seeley
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“John the Baptist was like the Emperor Nerva. In his career it was given him to do two things—to inaugurate a new régime, and also to nominate a successor who was far greater than himself.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men in general take up scheme after scheme, as circumstances suggest one or another, and therefore most biographies are compelled to pass from one subject to another, and to enter into a multitude of minute questions, to divide the life carefully into periods by chronological landmarks accurately determined, to trace the gradual development of character and ripening or change of opinions.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The difficulty of determining whether a man is or is not good has now become a commonplace of moralists and satirists. It is almost impossible to discover any test which is satisfactory, and the test which is actually applied by society is known to be unsatisfactory in the extreme.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man saw the building of the new Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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,”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Property can exist only under the guardianship of the State.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Commerce in itself may favour peace, but when commerce is artificially shut out by a decree of Government from some promising territory, then commerce just as naturally favours war.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source