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"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself. " Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.

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Robin G. Collingwood

The value of history. . . is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

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The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

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The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

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History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that. . . he is going to be a beginner all his life.

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