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

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

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.

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.