tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33037657884189452932012-02-15T22:44:56.959-08:00historySTPM"HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF BECAUSE NOBODY LISTENS"pyi2dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943279754262309199noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303765788418945293.post-89178240666295619782010-09-17T07:10:00.000-07:002010-09-17T07:10:31.577-07:00WHAT IS HISTORY??<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>"History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is." R. G. </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Collingwood </em></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3303765788418945293-8917824066629561978?l=historystpm.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>pyi2dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943279754262309199noreply@blogger.com0