Frederic Harrison Quotes

• The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

  Frederic Harrison

  Cute, Simple, Men

  Frederic Harrison (1975). “Order and Progress”, p.150, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.

  Frederic Harrison

  History, Mass, Lifeless

  Frederic Harrison (1862). “The Meaning of History: Two Lectures”, p.25

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