History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speakits people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.

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Themes

  • Change — Embracing transformation, growth, and new beginnings
  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life

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