Lightbulb on History

It can not be, it has gone. They believe that we can do the same sort of
work in the same spirit as our forefathers, whereas for good and for evil we are
completely changed, and we cannot do the work they did. All continuity of
history means is after all perpetual change, and it is not hard to see that we
have changed with a vengeance, and thereby established our claim to be
continuers of history
William Morris - in his inaugrial address to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings