SCHWEIZER LUDWIG
WAR WITHOUT LEGEND
Kirkcaldy 1943, by the author, pp [10] 151, format: 14x22 cm
They say that history is the teacher of nations. And that if people, shaping the present, knew the past - then they would not make mistakes and errors, for which the ancestors have already paid once. For the fall or rise of nations is the result of the weaknesses or advantages of their nature. History, noting the facts, makes it possible to find the reasons for their occurrence in the mistakes or advantages of their contemporaries, which in turn po-poses the removal of one - and the cultivation of the other. And in spite of such a great change in the conditions of life that a medieval man, would feel in our time like in the kingdom of Mephisto and consider complicated machines as his invention - these machines are operated by man. Human frailties and qualities, on the other hand, remain unchanged. The virtues that, under the Piasts and the first Jagiellons, allowed us to build a powerful state, are found in our society just as much as the vices and vices that, in the electoral era, led this powerful state to perdition.
But for history to be a teacher, it must be based on true facts. He looks for these facts in "sources." As sources are considered official documents and works of contemporaries - that is, diaries, stories or notes, which, when compared with each other, certain events unanimously report and are thus able to display the truth.
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