You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Leopold Von RankeAbout author
- Author's profession: Historian
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: December 21, 1795
- Died: May 23, 1886
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