There is no ‘verdict of history,’ other than the private opinions of the individual. And no one historian can possibly see more than a fraction of the truth; if he sees all sides, he will probably not see very deeply into any one of them.George Macaulay Trevelyan, ‘Clio, A Muse’, in Clio, a Muse, and Other Essays (London: Longmans, Green and co., 1949; 1913), pp. 140-176 (pp. 172-73).