Quote#World
The statesman uses his imagination to predict the result of changes…
Quote bySamuel Rawson Gardiner · 1829–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642, Vol. X. 1641–1642 (1884), p. viii.
English (original)
The statesman uses his imagination to predict the result of changes to be produced in the actually existing state of society, either by the natural forces which govern it, or by his own action. The historian uses his imagination in tracing out the causes which produced that existing state of society.
— Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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