Leopold Von Ranke: 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.

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 Ranke


		Name: Leopold Von Ranke Type: Historian Nationality: German Birth: December 21, 1795 Death: May 23, 1886

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