Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...wings be singed by approaching the light. No historical statement can be final, and it is this very uncertainly that keeps research perennial. The successful historian employs the same talents as the successful merchant, penetration and keen judgment of character. But in history we must never forget how important the personal basis and opinions of the narrator are. Tingard says no class of writers have done more to injure history than philosophical writers. What is called comparative history is as far as we can go in philosophical history. The historian may be sagaciously profound without being philosophical. Moral philosophy...
...with such growth there is a correspondingly increasing demand for earnest and intelligent workers; in many ways the physician is becoming the arbiter not only of public health but of public morals and as such, needs to learn well the lesson that his profession teaches, to save others and forget himself...
...that the Society has been going on its uppers, deprived of a superintendent and of old employees at one swoop, with nothing to keep it running but its routine and the organization Mr. Waterman had worked out for it in the past. And I would not have your readers forget that the directors could not help all this; and that Mr. Waterman, as business men and business methods go, is not open to severe censure. Perhaps those clerks would have gone to Mr. Waterman's even it the directors had cut loose from Mr. Waterman entirely and offered higher wages...