On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

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"Good old Freddie rambles on about the past and its (also non-)utility with a fascinatingly (post-)modern frame of mind, considering this was written in the late 19th century when the whole field was almost completely dominated by Rankean (in our eyes) conservativist and relatively straightforward approach to sources, and the general view about times past regarded them as self-evidently factual, to be brought to the light of universal Truth via rigorous scientific method. Nietzsche is funny becau"