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What Is History? (1961)
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History begins when men begin to think of the passage of time in terms not of natural processes – the cycle of the seasons, the human life-span – but of a series of specific events in which men are consciously involved and which they can consciously influence.
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What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context
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Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
June 28, 1892
Died:
November 3, 1982
(aged 90)
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