by operating on the
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive. Gail Sheehy
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by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive. Gail Sheehy
The historian amputates reality. Gaetano Salvemini
The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. Gaetano Salvemini
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! G. M. Trevelyan
And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space. G. M. Trevelyan
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. G. M. Trevelyan
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves. G. M. Trevelyan
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we … Read more
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. G. M. Trevelyan
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. G. H. Hardy