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History & HistoriansThis page features links to a number of subject areas
related to History and to the Historians who have used a rather
interesting variety of approaches in their attempts to inform us
about the past.
The most "original" linked historical pages that are accesssible from this page consider:-
Emerson's call for a "transcendentalist" These pages attempt to explore whether there might be any validity in Emerson's assertion that the Human Mind contains a pattern that has proven to be the foundation for the Unfolding of History. Emerson's view suggests that :-
" man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots,
"There is one mind common to all individual men. Towards the end of his Essay, History, Emerson asserts that :-
General Human Nature?
If the three-directional graphic you just viewed can realistically be said to help to display what might be called ~ Typically Humanly Natural ~ "Bundles of Relations and Knots of Roots" the following three-directional graphic may equally intimate truths about the "Human World" to which such "Bundles of Relations and Knots of Roots" could well tend to give rise by prompting people to feel, and to act, in ~ Typically Human ~ ways:- |
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In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west, to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain, and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital: so out of the human heart go, as it were, highways to the heart of every object in nature, to reduce it under the dominion of man. A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. His faculties refer to natures out of him, and predict the world he is to inhabit, as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists, or the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air. He cannot live without a world.
Famous Historical PersonalitiesFrom time to time individual human beings "have lived at the centre of events" such that an outline of their individual lives also tells us a something about the times in which they lived. When the wide range of aims these people individually supported are considered it tends to remind us of the perplexing reality that people often sincerely pursue goals that are definitely not shared by others.
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Famous Historians"The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred." ~ Lucian (A.D. 120-200)
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Philosophy of HistoryMany philosophers, writers, and historians, have variously attempted to discern "patterns" in History or to prescribe more effective approaches to the study of History .
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Alternate HistoryMany writers, and some historians, have speculated over the momentous "What Ifs" of history and have attempted to depict the resulting scenario if "this" had happened rather than "that" at key turning points of history.
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Some fascinating
The links below lead to some variously insightful, wise and entertaining quotes about history.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on History |
Historians on History |
| Metternich on history | |
| Wisdom about History | Cynical Quotes About History |
| Famous, Popular Entertaining, Controversial Quotes About History |
Quotes About Historical Insight |
| The lessons of history famous quotations and quotes |
The writing of history Historiography |
| Some random quotes about history | |
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Emerson, Human Nature,
The Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel Kant was adopted and
adapted by many other people in Europe and the Americas, one of
the more interesting instances of these adoptions / adaptions
being that of the New England Transcendentalists. |
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"A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of
roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
R. G. Collingwood
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| Emerson's call
for a "Transcendental Approach" to History |
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| The Unfolding of History | |||
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The "anti-revolutionary" mindset of the Dynastic governments from 1815 until after the Crimean War |
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| The Ems Telegram | |||||
| The Zimmermann Telegram | |||||
| President Woodrow Wilson Fourteen Points Speech |
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| Lenin's New Economic Policy | |||||
| European Union Integration | |||||
| The Unfolding of History aka The Emergence of Modernity |
The Social Construction of Reality | ||||
| Modern European History | |||||
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