“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.”– Francis Bacon Related Quotes “How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world’s main religions?”– Polly Toynbee “What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.”– Arthur Erickson “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”– Aldous Huxley