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read in July 2026
“For, to the great despair of historians, men fail to change their vocabulary every time they change their customs.”
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“In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.”
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
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