"... and [I] have come to the conclusion that #logic and #history are two distinct ways (and perhaps the only ways) of apprehending 'reality'; history being, however, the more comprehensive, since there is no logic of history but [there] is a very interesting history of logic.
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To me, nothing can be duller than historical facts; nothing more interesting than the service they can be made to render in the effort to solve the everlasting riddle of human existence."

Carl Becker, Letter to Frederick Jackson Turner, May 16, 1910

#WhyHistory #HistoricalThinking #ReadingNotes