Quotes: What is History? #4

“It appears to me simply untrue to say that our understanding of the problem of social organisation or our good will to organise society in the light of that understanding have regressed: indeed, I should venture to say that they have greatly increased. It is not that our capacities have diminished, or our moral qualities declined. But the period of conflict and upheaval, due to the shifting balance of power between continents, nations and classes through which we are living, has enormously increased the strain on these capacities and qualities, and limited and frustrated their effectiveness for positive achievement.”

E.H. Carr, What is History? (1962), pg. 114.