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Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(10 Jan 1834 - 19 Jun 1902)
British historian and moralist.
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Science Quotes by Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1)
It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.
— Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, Cambridge, 11 June 1895. Lectures on Modern History (1906), 21.
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