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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550129" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Defining History</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DEFINING HISTORY *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">History is neither for us nor against us; <br>It is a record of our accumulating past! <br>That past which we humans had once made, <br>And we can learn from our mistakes, it is often<br>said! <br>A wit had once put things together, saying; -<br>'History dose not repeat itself, only historians<br>repeat each other! ! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Civilization is a movement and not a condition, <br>a voyage, not a harbour, ' said Arnold Toynbee; <br>'It has the right and the capacity to choose its destiny! '<br>But many others did not seem to agree! <br>The early Mayans said that History repeats itself in<br>every 260 cyclic years, <br>History is not cyclic said Tonybee, to allay our fears! <br>The Greek Plato had felt that History was rather cynical; <br>While Oswald Spengler the German, had similar <br>views held! <br>Spengler said that all things that grow, must mature, <br>decay and decline; <br>The Western Civilization was no exception of any<br>kind! <br>But Carrol Quigley, a scientist by training, could not<br>accept any of the above views! <br>And in his 'The Evolution of Civilisation ', he pays<br>History its dues! <br>Quigley attempts to create an acceptable synthesis, <br>Which the critics praised with positive comments! <br>Quigley advocated that systems come into being <br>adapted to their environment; <br>Which changes and evolves with a gradual motion, <br>While he has laid down the seven stages of this <br>evolution! **<br>And he concludes by declaring with some flourish, <br>That those civilizations which cannot adapt to such<br>changes, -<br>Will one day perish! <br>   - Raj Nandy<br>   New Delhi<br>   31 Aug 08<br>(* I tried to pay my tribute to three of our greatest Historians, -<br>being an old student of History. Spengler is unpopular in the<br>West. <br> ** Mixture, Gestation, Expansion, Age of Conflict, Universal Empire, <br>Decay and Invasion.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Raj+Nandy">Raj Nandy</a><div class=q>
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History is neither for us nor against us; 
It is a record of our accumulating past! 
That past which we humans had once made, 
And we can learn from our mistakes, it is often
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