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Excerpt from The Interpretation of History
In such a case as this, the connection between the two events is clear. But even when it is not clear, even when it cannot be discovered, it must none the less exist. To assert that it does exist is only to assert that the continuity of History is a real thing, that the history of modern England cannot be fully without a knowledge of the history of those empires which passed out of existence while England was yet in a state of profound barbarism.
This continuity of History is to-day an admitted fact. No one contends that the history of eighteenth century England can be understood without a knowledge of the anglo-saxon period. It is just as clear that the anglo-saxon period cannot be understood without an appreciation of the peculiar character of the English conquest of Britain, without some knowledge of the history of the Roman Empire. And the Roman Empire itself was in?uenced by contact with Greek civilisa tion; Greek civilisation was in its turn modified by contact with Persia and the East. Hence from the study of English history in the eighteenth century we are led back by insensible degrees to the study of the remotest ages of antiquity; History becomes one continuous whole.
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