Quote#Books & Reading
As you see in my own Wee-Book, I think moral and intellectual facts…
Quote byJohn Richard Green · 1837–1883
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Edward Augustus Freeman (30 October 1873), quoted in Letters of John Richard Green, ed. Leslie Stephen (1901), p. 364.
English (original)
As you see in my own Wee-Book, I think moral and intellectual facts as much facts for the historian as military or political facts.
— John Richard Green
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