The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb...

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

quote by George Frost Kennan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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