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“I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”

Men Writing Believe I Believe Destiny Records Greater Events Movement Duty Supreme Historian Sequence Sweeping

Book:A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Source: A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

“While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.”

Source: The judgment of history

“A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore”

Firsts Duty Historian Bores Slander

Author:Voltaire

“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition