Buku
The death of the past
In this book I have tried to draw a sharp distinction between the past and history. Man, from the earliest days of recorded time, has used the past in a variety of ways: to explain the origins and purpose of human life, to sanctify institutions of government, to give validity to class structure, to provide moral example, to vivify his cultural and educational processes, to interpret the future, to invest both the individual hu- man life or a nation's with a sense of destiny. For all societies the past has been a living
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