An island of mediocre relevance
History's greatest strength is also its deepest weakness. When history ceased to be the application of rhetoric to the knowledge of the past in view of informing the present and warning about the future - models of behaviour to follow and unethical examples to avoid -, it also lost most of its popular appeal. The prestige of the historian today is locat…
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