Yet truth, after all, is the sovereign passion of mankind; nor is the writer of these pages prepared to relinquish his conviction that it is possible to combine the accuracy of the present with the impartiality of the future.
Concluding a reflection on historical writing, this expresses the author's belief in the ultimate pursuit of truth and the possibility of achieving objective historical accounts.
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