It is not the task of history to project the hatred and disagreements of the present back into the past and to draw from battles fought long ago weapons for the disputes of one’s own time. History should teach us to recognize causes and to understand driving forces; and when we understand everything, we will forgive everything.
Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State and Economy (1919; 1983, Leland B. Yeager, trans.), p. 28.
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