Quotes Tagged With :presentism

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this....

Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams....

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

It’s hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I’m bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life....

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism'....