South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c6.4

c6.4

We have the high authority of Lord Morley for the dictum, ‘ we have no business to seek more from the past than the very past itself.’ I have striven hard to keep to the high level of this historical dictum, and trust I have kept out all bias one way or another. I have had occasion to lament with Freeman, ‘ I am beginning to think, that there is not, and never was such a thing as truth in the world. At least I do not believe that any two people ever give exactly the same account of anything, even when they have seen it with their own eyes, except when they copy from one another.' I have endeavoured to get at the truth despite this difficulty, and leave it to my readers to judge how far my effort has attained success.