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About G. M. Young
George Malcolm Young (29 April 1882 β 18 November 1959) was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age (1936).
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βA flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults.β
βThe human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another.β
βIt was one of Lord Salisbury's paradoxes that only uncontentious legislation should be brought before Parliament: if it were contentious, then public opinion was not ripe for it.β
βA historian should "go on reading (...) until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happened as they did."'London Addresses I', in G.M. Young, Today and Yesterday: Collected Essays and Addresses (London, 1948), p. 112.β
βTo attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious newspaper and put money in the savings bank, was in 1840 as good an ideal as could be set before a man. To pursue it gave him rank as a citizen, the promise of a vote, and a share in a solid civilization.β
βOf historic method, indeed, nothing wiser has ever been said than a word which will be found in Gibbon's youthful Essay on the Study of Literature. Facts, the young sage instructs us, are of three kinds: those which prove nothing beyond themselves, those which serve to illustrate a character or explain a motive, and those which dominate the system and move its springs.β
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G. M. Young on History
βThe greater part of what passes for diplomatic history is little more than the record of what one clerk said to another clerk.β
G. M. Young on University of Oxford
βBeing published by the Oxford University Press is rather like being married to a duchess: the honour is almost greater than the pleasure.β
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G. M. Young on Stanley Baldwin 3 quotes
βThe Conservatives can't talk of class war: they started it.β
G. M. Young on John Henry Newman
βOnce for some dreary and self-denying purpose I read many books on educationβnot method, which is not my concern, or the psychology of childhood, which interests me deeply, but Education with a big E. I came to the conclusion that if two were kept, the rest might, with no loss to humanity and possibly some advantage, be pulped... One of these books is Aristotle's Ethics, and the other is Newman's nine discourses on The Idea of a University.β
About G. M. Young
George Malcolm Young (29 April 1882 β 18 November 1959) was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age (1936).