That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past is but the past of a beginning.
The past is where its supposed to be.
It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
The past is what the past is.
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