Excerpt from How the Study of History Is Let and Hindered: An Address, Delivered in the Liverpool Institute 19th November, 1879

We live in a land of precedent, where the first question to be asked before doing anything is whether it has ever been done before. Indeed I believe that there are still some left who cleave to the old faith that there is something in the wisdom of our forefathers, and that the right thing is to stand fast in the old paths. Belonging myself to that old-fashioned sect, dreading nothing so much as the change of novelty, before I ventured to open my mouth before the Liverpool Institute, I made it my business to learn something of the traditions and precedents of the place, and to find out what had been said by others who had opened their mouths here before me. I have been able to read the addresses which have been delivered here by two statesmen who are also scholars, and by one great scholar whom all who cleave to old things and eschew new will be glad to see numbered in the ranks of statesmen.

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