Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
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