“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.”

“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of society. Rather, the opposite is the case: to examine the *constitution* of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the *completed* structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history.”

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

“A ruling government can't afford to publish history in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection.”