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“The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.”
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Edward Hallett Carr
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“History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.”
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Edward Hallett Carr
Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
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“History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick”
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Edward Hallett Carr
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“Change is certain. Progress is not.”
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Edward Hallett Carr
Source : "From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays". Book by Edward Hallett Carr, 1980.
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“The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context”
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Edward Hallett Carr
Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
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“History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.”
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Edward Hallett Carr
Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
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“It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.”
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Edward Hallett Carr
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“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
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Edward Hallett Carr
Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”
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“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”
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Edward Hallett Carr
Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
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“What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.”
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Edward Hallett Carr
Source : Edward Hallett Carr (1962). “What Is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
#History Quotes
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