Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.Samuel E. Morison
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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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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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.
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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.
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