The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

He also edited Eliza Fay's (1756–1816) letters from India in an edition first publiE. M. Forsterd in 1925. Sprott and for a time the composer Benjamin Britten. After returning to London from India he completed his last novel A Passage to India (1924) for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist short story writer essayist and librettist. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect … ".