…………….has rightly remarked,”All good historical writing is universal history in the sense that it remembers the universal while dealing with part of it.”

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• "History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, and fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes."
• on what is history, why history and rethinking history-these books are written by …………………
• The collection of historical records or the physical place where the historical records are located is known as?
• Who said "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."
• "History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."
• ………….are the bedrock of historical knowledge, infact the basic raw materials for the reconstruction of history.
• …………. is an element of historical method, attempted to fill the gaps which a historian finds in his collected materials for the reconstruction of history.
• The concept of Universal History was initiated by the Medieval Arab Historians …………………
• "The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid."
• "What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."