OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
While we read history we make history.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.