History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

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Friedrich von Schiller: "History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity."

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Accustoms	Beings	Birth	Boundaries
Comprehend	Conceals	Conclusions	Death
Enclose	Endless	Existence	Expands
Forward	Future	Hasten	History
Human	Humanity	Illusion	Imperceptibly
Individual	Insofar	Into	Kind
Leading	Life	Narrowly	Oppressively
Optical	Over	Past	Short
Space	Whole

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History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity. - Friedrich von Schiller