Birrell On Baldwin On History
•w- -jr tt have a wonderful and |/1/ really admirable. Premier to-day, said Mr Augustine Birrell recently , who goes about the country making speeches in which he says more things of general interest to the people who like matters of general interest than any Prime Minister 1 ever heard about. lie really interests you. He said the other day that he would not give a fig for any historian or history that was not partisan. What he meant to say, and l entirely agree with him, was that he did not like reading dull books. A lively liar was very much better company for the tired politician than one of those conscientious fellows who are really anxious to find out what occurred in times past and how it same about, and how people came to behave in the extraordinary ways they did. You cannot help reading these partisan historians, because they are readable, whereas many of the others are not readable at all. The only way to get over the difficulty is to read a partisan history on one side, and follow immediately with a history on the other side.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 14
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195Birrell On Baldwin On History Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 14
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