From Metternich to Hitler: Aspects of British and Foreign History, 1814-1939; Historical Association Essays (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The comparative method is exceedingly valuable to historians and above all to those concerned with the difficult task of surveying impartially contemporary history. Whatever view is held of the value of history as a means Of understanding the present, it at least enables us to Obtain a standpoint and a perspective which can be Obtained in no other way. In this strange and momentous age when new and un known sources Of energy are moulding a new world before our eyes so violently that civilization is threatened with destruction, it may be that we can find in the past some fixed points on which to take our bearings. If we are careful to remember continually the immense changes between our own day and that of a hundred years ago, and to avoid the hypnotic influence which the history Of great events, in which their own country has shared, exercises on some individuals, we can, I think, obtain some help in the solution of the immense problems with which we are today confronted.

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