Excerpt from A Short History of the British Commonwealth, Vol. 2 of 2: The Modern Commonwealth (1763 to 1919) It is indeed impossible, in dealing with questions so living as these, for either the writer or the reader to avoid con stant mental reference to contemporary conditions. And this increases the difficulty as well as the interest of the writer's task. His plain duty of impartiality becomes at once more important and harder to fulfil; he has to be constantly on guard against his own natural bias. In truth no ...
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Excerpt from A Short History of the British Commonwealth, Vol. 2 of 2: The Modern Commonwealth (1763 to 1919) It is indeed impossible, in dealing with questions so living as these, for either the writer or the reader to avoid con stant mental reference to contemporary conditions. And this increases the difficulty as well as the interest of the writer's task. His plain duty of impartiality becomes at once more important and harder to fulfil; he has to be constantly on guard against his own natural bias. In truth no historian of the immediate background of our own time can be absolutely impartial. He cannot avoid framing judgments: even if he abstains from expressing them in words, he expresses them more subtly in the selection and arrangement of his facts. I claim no more than that I have honestly tried to keep always in mind a dictum which is laid down in the text, - that no man has a right to express a definite judgment upon a controverted question unless he can understand why men as able and honest as himself have come to quite different conclusions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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