“Successive technological revolutions have immeasurably widened the psychological gap between generations. With some reason, perhaps, the man of the age of electricity and of the airplane feels himself removed from his masters.”

—  Marc Bloch

The Historian's Craft, pg.36

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French historian, medievalist, and historiographer 1886–1944

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