I can see … only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. H A L Fisher
Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. H A L Fisher
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilisation that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain and Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe. H A L Fisher