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Thanks to recent trends in the theory of knowledge, history is now better aware of its own worth and unassailability than it formerly was. It is precisely in its inexact character, in the fact that it can never be normative and does not have to be, that its security lies.

Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian. Men and Ideas, pt. 1 (1948-1953, trans. 1959).

From the essay "The Task of Cultural History."

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