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Surely this chamber, too, in the great laboratory deserves that the historian should unseal its door and explore its recesses.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgSurely this chamber, too, in the great laboratory deserves that the historian should unseal its door and explore its recesses.
Morley calls for historians to explore the deeper aspects of societal development.
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