This is book by historians about history, personal reflections on an ancient but ever varying discipline. In writing about their task, which is to reconstruct a past that they have never known and that they can neither deduce from first principles nor create by an act of the imagination, they reveal their diverse presuppositions, concern, and ambitions.
Asm 19/07/24
When I was honoured with the invitation from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham to give Riddle Memorial Lectures In 1957 at King's Cpllage, I could not decline the prebilege of lecturing on this Foundation, through I had some difficulty in deciding upon an apprrpriate subject.
dalam pengertian se-hari hari,maka badan" kita pertentangkan dengan "djiwa", demikian hingga menurut pengertian se-hari hari ini "djasmani" se- akan akan terlepas dari "rohani" dalam falsafalah-alam seringkali kita melihat "badan" sebagai satu jang mati,jang diam,jang tidak bergerak atau,jang bergerak,tetapi digerakan oleh "badan" lain dalam fisiologi "badan" ini kita pelajari funksinja,faalnja…
bertanja mengenai arti kalau orangatau pengertian sedjarah,kita tidak dapat mendjawabnya dalam satu dua patah kata. sedjarah mempunyai arti jang komplex, apalagi kalau kita ikuti tiap pendapat ahli jang bepengaruh dalam lapangan itu kata sedjarah berasal dari bahasa arab S A D J A R A jang berarti pohon, keturunan,asal usul atau silsilah.orang jang sudah lama berhubungan dengan ilmu sedjarah,t…
in 1918 british labor party pronounced its belief in the necessity for increased study,scientific investigasion and,deliberate organization of research is the mother of fredom,science must be the parent of law". in 1795 a similar view was expressed by the national convention of france,on the occasion of the foundation of the insititut nasional"
the seveenteth century in europe was pre-eminently a century of advance in the pyschical sciences,and the major intelectual controversies of the time inevitably centered round the points at which discoveries in these sciences impinged upon the tradional framework of thought and belief inherited from the middle ages
this is a book by historians about history, personal reflections
when i was a boy at school a question that was frequently asked was: What is the use of history? and nobody seemed to have any answer. ( if the school had been somewhat better, the answer would have been forthcoming all right ; for, as i hope to show you, there is a compelety satisfactory answer to the question, an over whelming case for study of history)
Rst 04/04/24