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.
Samuel Eliot Morison Quotes
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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Birth: | 9th July, 1887 |
Death: | 15th May, 1976 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Historian |
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