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Excerpt from Blunders and Forgeries: Historical Essays
There is a well-known saying attributed to a great scholar: Verify your quotations. Quotations must not only be verified, but traced to their origin. The last Essay in this volume will show that writers of our own day, who take pride in accuracy, are perpetuating old calumnies because, while thev verify the correctness of their quotations from Strype, they are content to take on trust the references of Strype himself. A second rule, not less important to the historical or theological student, is: Consult. There is no such folly, writes Mr. Mozley, no such cause of utter breakdown and disgrace, as the silly pride of doing things quite by oneself, without assistance.1 In addition, then, to the various historical points recorded in my Index, there is a general maxim enforced throughout these Essays, and which is one of charity as well as of accuracy, a maxim I would willingly have printed on my title-page: consult and verify, verify and consult.
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