Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. – John Clive, Not By Fact Alone

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country