Geoffrey Elton: Claim

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“[On postmodernism] We historians are, in a way, fighting for our lives. Certainly, we are fighting for the lives of innocent young people beset by devilish tempters who claim to offer higher forms of thought and deeper truths and insights – the intellectual equivalent of crack, in fact. Any acceptance of these theories – even the most gentle or modest bow in their direction – can prove fatal.”

Source: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, Return to Essentials (2002)

“English government has a special claim to be studied. It developed in comparative freedom from outside interference, producing a curious blend of decentralized and popular freedom with strong, efficient, and centralized administration.”

Source: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, Tudor Revolution in Government (1953)

“In history there are no authorities: history is a free study in which no man can claim rule, or credence for his mere ipse dixit, and in which the only true sin is to deny a hearing to views with which one happens to disagree.”

Source: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, 'Presidential Address: The Historian's Social Function' (1976)