You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that hi...

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

quote by Leopold Von Ranke
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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