The Second Fundamental Feature Of Culture Is

History, As The Study Of The Past, Makes The Coherence Of What Happened Comprehensible By Reducing Events To A Dramatic Pattern And Seeming Them In A Simple Form.

Science, Unguided By A Higher Abstract Principle, Freely Hands Over Its Secrets To A Vastly Developed And Commercially Inspired Technology, And The Latter, Even Less Restrained By A Supreme Culture Saving Principle, With The Means Of Science Creates All The Instruments Of Power Demanded From It By The Organization Of Might.

Every Work Of History Constructs Contexts And Designs, Forms In Which Past Reality Can Be Comprehended. History Creates Comprehensibility Primarily By Arranging Facts Meaningfully And Only In A Very Limited Sense By Establishing Strict Causal Connections.

A Crude Mind Could Easily Think: Something Is Valid, Therefore It Is True.

History Is The Interpretation Of The Significance That The Past Has For Us.