"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."

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• "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."
• "What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
• "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 …………………
• Troeltsch used …………….. to mean a tendency to view all knowledge and all forms of experience in the context of historical change.
• ……………….is the study of human culture in historic as well as prehistoric times, by examining the material remains of early human settlements.
• Who stated that:"Study the historian before you begin to study the facts”?
• The Italian historian………says that “all history is contemporary history”.
• Who wrote that History of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles?
• ……………is the study of history in a geographically local context and it often concentrates on the local community.