Powell History Quote of the Week

“A man does not attain to the universal by abandoning the particular, nor to the everlasting by an endeavour to overleap the limitations of time and place.  The abiding reality exists not somewhere apart in the air, but under certain temporary and local forms of thought, feeling, and endeavour.  We come most deeply into communion with the permanent facts and forces of human nature and human life, by accepting first of all this fact — that a definite point of observation and sympathy, not a vague nowhere, has been assigned to each of us.”– E. Dowden