"Archives relating to G. M. Young"

“A historian should "go on reading until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happened as they did.”

“The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another.”

“A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults.”

“To attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious newspaper and put money in the savings bank, was in 1840 as good an ideal as could be set before a man. To pursue it gave him rank as a citizen, the promise of a vote, and a share in a solid civilization.”

“To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy.”

“It was one of Lord Salisbury's paradoxes that only uncontentious legislation should be brought before Parliament: if it were contentious, then public opinion was not ripe for it.”