I just added a quotation to [[1911 Encyclopedia Britannica]]. It reads in part:

One leaps from one subject to another, fascinated as much by the play of mind and the indiosyncrasies of the authors as by the facts and dates. It must be the last encyclopeaedia in the tradition of [[Denis Diderot|Diderot]] which assumes that information can be made memorable only when it is slightly coloured by prejudice. -- Sir Kenneth Clark