History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
Marc Bloch
The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.
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Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
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But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.
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