Work
Butterfield's main interests were historiography, the history of science, 18th century constitutional history, Christianity and history and the theory of international politics. He delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow in 1965. As a Protestant, Butterfield was highly concerned with religious issues, but he did not believe that historians could uncover the hand of God in history.
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“Thou hast left behind
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;
There’s not a breathing of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man’s unconquerable mind.”
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