The Lessons of History

Farei um resumo à medida que for relendo. I. Hesitations Our knowledge of any past event is always incomplete, probably inaccu­rate. The historian always oversimplifies, and hastily selects a manageable minority of facts and faces out of a crowd of souls and events whose multitudinous complexity he can never quite embrace or comprehend. Furthermore, an element of chance, perhaps of freedom, seems to enter into the conduct of metals and men. Obviously historiography cannot b... leia mais