Quotes from the World for Wednesday 04/06/V3.1

Bias, point of view, fury—are they … so dangerous and must they be ironed out of history, the hills flattened and the contours leveled? The professors talk … about passion and point of view in history as a Calvinist talks about sin in the bedroom.

Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973), U.S. biographer. Adventures of a Biographer, ch. 6 (1959).