R. G. Collingwood
"I should not think it an outrageous paradox", writes Carr, "if someone were to say that Grote's "History of Greece" has quite as much to tell us about the thought of the English philosophical radicals in the 1840s as about Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C." Prof. Carr credits the philosopher R. G. Collingwood as being his inspiration for this line of thinking.