"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future." - Robert Penn Warren, "The Legacy of the Civil War"

Aug 30, 2022 路 6:43 PM UTC

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Yes ... and we don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past!
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"From the start America had had adequate baggage of self-righteousness and phariseeism, but with the Civil War came grace abounding, for the least of sinners." ... It sounds like an unusual and interesting book!
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Well said
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The best thing about history is learning from it so we don't have to keep repeating the same old mistakes over and over and over...
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As to history not giving us a program for the future.....How about this.. Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So if you ignore history your future will be your past.
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Let us hope then, that the strongest of spotlights is now beaming in on the most incompetent and inhumane (not to say, absent!) government we in Britain have ever experienced