Quote of the Day (C. V. Wedgwood, on the Past Quest for Certainties)

“Men wanted certainties, not more causes for doubt, and since the discoveries of science perplexed them with strange theories about the earth on which they walked and the bodies they inhabited, they turned with all the more zeal to the firm assurances of religion.”― English historian C. V. Wedgwood (1910-1997), The Thirty Years War (1938)

Quote of the Day (C. V. Wedgwood, on Officials With ‘Narrow Hearts and Little Minds’)

“The dismal course of the conflict [i.e., Europe’s "Thirty Years War,” 1618-1648], dragging on from one decade to the next and from one deadlock to the next, seems to me an object lesson on the dangers and disasters which can arise when men of narrow hearts and little minds are in high places.”― English historian C. V. Wedgwood (1910-1997), The Thirty Years War (1938)