FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND
English legal historian (1850 - 1906)
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Nowadays we may see the office of historical research as that of
explaining, and therefore lightening, the pressure that the past
must exercise upon the present, and the present upon the future.
Today we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday
may not paralyse today, and today not paralyse tomorrow.
- Collected Papers (vol. III, p. 439)
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