G.M. TREVELYAN

"What will now happen to England in peace and in war the historian is no better able to guess than anyone else. And the tremendous changes that have already taken place in the first forty years of the new century will no doubt, a short time hence, look different from what they now appear, and will fall into a new historical perspective." (English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries: Chaucer to Queen Victoria, 1942)