………….are the bedrock of historical knowledge, infact the basic raw materials for the reconstruction of history.

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• …………. is an element of historical method, attempted to fill the gaps which a historian finds in his collected materials for the reconstruction of history.
• ………………., if used quite logically and unbiased, could be helpful to illuminate the dark aspects of historical reconstruction.
• "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 …………………
• "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."
• The collection of historical records or the physical place where the historical records are located is known as?
• …………….has rightly remarked,”All good historical writing is universal history in the sense that it remembers the universal while dealing with part of it.”
• 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."
• Troeltsch used …………….. to mean a tendency to view all knowledge and all forms of experience in the context of historical change.
• ………………..is a mode of thinking that assigns a central and basic significance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical place and local culture.