J. B. Bury Quotes

• History is a science, no more and no less.

  J. B. Bury

  History

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• The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

  J. B. Bury

  Progress, Atheism, Together

  J. B. Bury (2014). “A History of Freedom of Thought (Illustrated)”, p.141, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.

  J. B. Bury

  Art, Stars, Dresses

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• A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

  J. B. Bury

  History, Facts, Ends

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• The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

  J. B. Bury

  Kings, People, Greek

  "A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great" by J. B. Bury, 2nd edition, (p. 683), 1913.

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