“For a people to be without history, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a man to be without memory – condemned forever to make the same discoveries that have been made in the past, invent the same techniques, wrestle with the same problems, commit the same errors; and condemned, too, to forfeit the rich pleasures of recollection. Indeed, just as it is difficult to imagine history without civilization, so it is difficult to imagine civilization without history.” ~Henry Steele Commager(1965), American Historian
Henry Steele Commager – history
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