"In his inaugural lecture of 1895, Lord Acton said, "The knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.' (Essays on Freedom and Power, New York, 1957, 25-26).' I discovered Lord Acton's quote in an article by James J. Sheehan titled How Do We Learn From History?
In his inaugural lecture of 1895, Lord Acton said, "'The knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.' (Essays on Freedom and Power, New York, 1957, 25-26)." I discovered Lord Acton's quote in an article by James J. Sheehan titled How Do We Learn from History?
Understand that many Christians have believed that Jesus is God's Living Word (Logos) and that the Bible is a record of truths / beliefs written down by humans.
To be fair to Hislop, in recent years the Eye has mostly been purged of its bigotry, while its record of speaking truth to power remains intact.
At an opposite extreme, realistic and naturalistic views of literature as an exact record of social truth were developed by Vissarion Belinsky in Russia, Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola in France, and William Dean Howells in the United States.
Her victory matters not only because it helps the Democrats keep control of the Senate but also because Ms. Warren has a track record of speaking truth to authority on financial issues – both to officials in Washington and to powerful people on Wall Street.
On Tuesday night, the "Rachel Maddow Show" host said there was "no reason" to suggest that Putin had done the same, which meant that Russia "undoubtedly" had "a record of the truth of what happened".
Any patient samples lacking a diagnosis based on cystoscopy as the gold standard (i.e. in the absence of a record of clinical truth), or where only one test result was available, were discarded.
Piece by piece, in individual paintings and collectively in his life's work, he observed and recorded morsels of truth, seeking to understand and elucidate it.
