UGC NET History Q140

Question

The statement below is attributed to which historian ? St. Augustine looked at history from the point of view of the early Christian; Tillamont from that of a seventeenth century Frenchman; Gibbon, from that of an eighteenth century Englishman; Mommsen from that of a nineteenth century German. There is no point in asking which was the right point of view. Each was the only one possible for the man who adopted it :