Nazi Literature In The Americas - pg. 121

The following sentence from Toynbee expresses one of the pivotal themes of Sibelius's introductory text: "The historian's view is conditioned, always and everywhere, by his own location in time and place; and, since time and place are continually changing, no history, in the subjective sense of the word, can ever be a permanent record that will tell the story, once for all, in a form that will be equally acceptable to readers in all ages, or even in all quarters of the  Earth."