Quote#Books & Reading
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as…
Quote byWilliam Hickling Prescott · 1796–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Biographical and Critical Miscellanies, "Chateaubriand's English Literature" (1839), p. 245..
English (original)
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
— William Hickling Prescott
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