He approached
history as a politician ; he had none of the passion for
research for its own sake, and himself to those
periods and characters in which great political prob-
lems were being worked out; above all, he was a
patriotic historian, and he never wandered far from
Prussia.
history as a politician ; he had none of the passion for
research for its own sake, and himself to those
periods and characters in which great political prob-
lems were being worked out; above all, he was a
patriotic historian, and he never wandered far from
Prussia.
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great
