History is our tree of life. We pay too little attention to it, we repeat our mistakes, and as we technically progress we fail culturally.
So much of history will never be unearthed, and much of history is myth. We can see our present time connected to history as with strings that tie who we are and how we behave to our past. If we get our history wrong we get ourselves wrong
Its up to individual faith to decide what version of history to accept. Our truth is best un-veiled with a combination of dedicated study and honesty. Each one of us is made from 4.5 billion years of effort that holds inside us all the past eternity, and surely the future as well.
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QUOTES
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today. Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916
Mark Twain once famously said, "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored." ?