Thoughts on History
(Human beings) look separate because you see them walking
about separately. But then, we are so made that we can only
see the present moment. If we could see the past, then of
course it would look different. For there was a time when
every man was a part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of
his father as well, and when they were part of his
grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time,
as God sees it, it would look . . . like one single growing
thing—rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual
would appear connected with every other.----C. S. Lewis
All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth—including America, of course—
consist of pilfering from other people’s wash. No tribe,
however insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty,
occupies a foot of land that was not stolen. When the
English, the French, and the Spaniards reached America,
the Indian tribes had been raiding each other’s territorial
clothes-lines for ages, and every acre of ground in the
continent had been stolen and restolen 500 times.
----Mark Twain
The aim of history, then, is to know the elements of the
present by understanding what came into the present from
the past.----Frederick Jackson Turner
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
----William Faulkner
Thoughts on History
(Human beings) look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then, we are
so made that we can only see the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it
would look different. For there was a time when every man was a part of his mother, and (earlier
still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see
humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look . . . like one single growing thing—
rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other. ----C. S. Lewis
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth—including America,
of course—consist of pilfering from other people’s wash. No tribe, however insignificant, and
no nation, howsoever mighty, occupies a foot of land that was not stolen. When the English, the
French, and the Spaniards reached America, the Indian tribes had been raiding each other’s
territorial clothes-lines for ages, and every acre of ground in the continent had been stolen and
restolen 500 times. ----Mark Twain
The aim of history, then, is to know the elements of the present by understanding what came into
the present from the past.----Frederick Jackson Turner
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.----William Faulkner