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        Date: 2020-08-01 10:26:08+00:00
        From: Manfred Thaller 
        Subject: Tracing a quote?

Dear Humanists,

Some twenty or thirty years ago I came across a quotation which
fascinated me very much, but where unfortunately I did not write down
the source. (Or indeed the quote verbatim.)

Presumably a British historian at the start of the previous century (in
any case before World War I) formulated something very close to:

The problem of a historian, compared to a scientist, is "that it is very
hard to put a small piece of the Roman Empire into a test tube, add some
Christianity and watch whether it dissolves".

I'd be extraordinarily grateful, if somebody could point me to the
author of that statement.

Best regards,
Manfred

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Prof. em. Dr. Manfred Thaller
Zuletzt Universität zu Köln /
Formerly University at Cologne




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