Word: gleaner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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History cares for the individual only as he represents the family or state. History ought not to be made use of to defend a cause, and we should bear in mind that there are no real breaks in history. The historian first should be a gleaner of facts, and second, should have the power to combine facts so as to bring them out in their full significance...