Since I do not admit that a person without bias exists, I think the best that can be done with a large-scale history is to admit one's bias and for dissatisfied readers to look for other writers to express an opposite bias. Which bias is nearer to the truth must be left to posterity. This point of view on the writing of history makes me prefer my History of Western Philosophy to the Wisdom of the West which was taken from the former
Source:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 6: America, 1968
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