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The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Historian

Born: December 7th, 1872

Died: February 1st, 1945

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