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    The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as read more

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species

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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections read more

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

by Marshall Mcluhan Found in: Historians Quotes,
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he read more

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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