James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson was an American historian, who co-founded New History, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences. Jay Green concludes:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth29 June 1863
CountryUnited States of America
men history earth
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
memories history may
History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.
brave courage escaping ideas largely last standards ways
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
god pastors people turn
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
spiritual pain study
Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.
believe argument reason-and-logic
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
real men emotional
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
two-sides political assuming
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
self-esteem passion ideas
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.
self errors groups
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
life men unique
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
silly believe people
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
success doe way
Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.
curiosity may realizing
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.