The history of the English-speaking world in the last four hundred years has beyond question been a great period of history. But to treat it as the centre-piece of universal history, and everything else as peripheral to it, is an unhappy distortion of perspective.
It is the duty of a university to correct such popular distortions. The school of modern history in this university seems to me to fall short in the discharge on this duty.
It is surely wrong that a candidate should be allowed to sit for an honors degree in history in a major university without an adequate knowledge of any modern language other than English.
by Edward Hallett Carr
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