历史的目的是解释现在 - 说明为什么我们周围的世界就是这样。历史告诉我们什么在我们的世界中重要，以及它的发展。它告诉我们要忽略或丢弃的是什么。那是真正的力量 - 深刻的力量。定义整个社会的力量。
(The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.)