Julian Huxley
British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887-1975)
John Robert Seeley
British historian
Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMGwas an English Liberal historian and political essayist. A founder of British imperial history, he was a prominent advocate for the British Empire, promoting a concept of Greater Britain.
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Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMGwas an English Liberal historian and political essayist. A founder of British imperial history, he was a prominent advocate for the British Empire, promoting a concept of Greater Britain. This he expounded in his most widely known book The Expansion of England (1883). While he was an early advocate of the establishment of political science as a distinct academic discipline, he retained a theological approach in which this was embedded.
3 Quotes by John Robert Seeley
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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
John Robert SeeleyBritish historian
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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
John Robert SeeleyBritish historian
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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
John Robert SeeleyBritish historian