"You are in the first place a Christian: I am in the first place a historian. There is a gulf between us."
— Leopold von Ranke

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in Acton : Study of history , quoted from Lal, K. S. (2001). Historical essays. New Delhi: Radha.(43)