[I]t was Edmund Burke who—having recovered contact with the historical achievements of Restoration England—exerted the presiding influence over the historical movement of the nineteenth century.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[I]t was Edmund Burke who—having recovered contact with the historical achievements of Restoration England—exerted the presiding influence over the historical movement of the nineteenth century." in the context of "Herbert Butterfield, Man on His Past: The Study of the History of Historical Scholarship (1955), p. 18" to mean that wisdom is timeless.