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The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.