"Department of history" Quotes from Famous Books
... principles of rational criticism were worked out and applied in all seriousness. Then these maxims began to be applied, sometimes timidly and sometimes in scorn and shallowness, to the sacred history and literature as well. To claim, as the defenders of the faith were fain to do, that this one department of history was exempt, was only to tempt historians to say that this was equivalent to confession that we have not here to ... — Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore |