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..But who is to say how things were ?....All historical facts come to us as a result of interpretative choices by historians influenced by the standards of their age. Yet if absolute objectivity is impossible, thr role of the historian need in no way suffer, nor does history lose its fascination.
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Spectator" on E.H. Carr's book.
We can view the past and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present. The historian is of his own age and is bound to it by the conditions of human existence.
"What is history" by E.H. Carr
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