The Victoriansí fascination with the past was thus the
product of an age obsessed with change, desperately
hoping that history itself might supply the reassurance
that could no longer be derived from ancient beliefs. ...
The Victoriansí obsession with history was fuelled by
an immense extension of the range of past events open
to their investigations.î Peter J. Bowler, 1989, The
Invention of Progress: The Victorians and the Past
(Oxford: Basil Blackwood), page 3.
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