Man and history
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The word HISTORY in our language expresses two different concepts: the fullness of happening, the facts and knowledge of those facts, of that happen. The word comes from the Greek verb HISTOREW, which means both inquiring, figuring out, and writing history.
Herodotus uses it mostly in the first senses. In his work DE LEGIBUS he judges cicero thus:
"I think I understand well, brother, that, in your opinion, certain laws, and other laws other than poetry, should be observed in history. Of course, since in one every detail refers to the truth, while in the other most of the traits have as an end the liking or delight. And yet there is in Herodotus, the father of history... an incalculable number of legends..."
It is customary at this point to turn to German and state that in this language there are two words for the two mentioned senses of history: one, HISTORIE, refers to the reality of happening; another, GESCHICHTE, to knowledge, knowing about historical facts.
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