Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) British economic historian
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 32
“Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present…This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.”
The Historian's Craft, pg.43
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