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The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

in The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
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Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

in The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
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