You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. - Leopold von Ranke

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Leopold von Ranke: "You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was."

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Attempt	Contemporary	Future	High
History	Instruct	Judge	Merely
Office	Ought	Past	Present
Really	Reckoned	Tell	World
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