G. Kinston
Clark, in The Critical Historian, writes:
“The distortion
produced by bias are potentially present in any attempt to write history.
Sometimes the danger is obvious and menacing, sometimes it is covert, coming from
unexpected angles and in not easily detected forms. ….Any interpretation which
makes use of facts which can be shown to be false, or accepts as certainty true
facts which are dubious, or does not take into account facts which are known,
are at best, potentially misleading, and possibly grossly, and dangerously
deceptive. ….It is the first task of the historian to review any narrative to
find what links are missing altogether…where what is defective cannot be
supplied by further research, it is an historian’s duty to draw attention to
the fact so that men can know where they stand.…Any historical conception which
has not been adjusted to the most recent results will cease to be satisfactory.”
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