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Must
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Nov 07, 2020

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

He
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Nov 07, 2020

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

Define
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Nov 07, 2020

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

Common Sense
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Nov 07, 2020

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Nothing
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Nov 07, 2020

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

Beyond
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Nov 07, 2020

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Design
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Nov 07, 2020

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Honesty
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Nov 07, 2020

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

History
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Nov 07, 2020

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

Garden
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Nov 07, 2020

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

Nov 07, 2020

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

Detested
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Nov 07, 2020

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

Early
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Nov 07, 2020

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

Embraces
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Nov 07, 2020

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Enthusiasm
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Nov 07, 2020

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

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