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  • Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are becoming a numerate society: almost instinctively there seems now to be a greater degree of truth in evidence expressed numerically than in any literary evidence, no matter how shaky the statistical evidence, or acute the observing eye.

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  • History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

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  • The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

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    J.H. Plumb (1989). “The Death of the Past”, p.40, Springer
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J. H. Plumb

  • Born: August 20, 1911
  • Died: October 21, 2001
  • Occupation: Historian
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