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To begin with, the least important uses of history-the study, at any rate, the reading of history gives pleasure. There is much in the annals of a that is as romantic and interesting as anything in novels and books of fiction. No one can read the stories of brave knights, adventurers, great kings and discoverers, without interest and pleasure.
A study of history, moreover, broadens the mind, enlarges the sympathies and quickens the imagination. As read of the great deeds our forefathers did and the stories of the achievements of other nations, our mind becomes peopled with many noble and figures; and we feel a deeper interest, not only in our people but also in all humanity. We understand the noble words of the Roman -"I am a man, and nothing human is foreign to me. "
History is "race - memory". How could we live as individuals without memory? There have strange cases of complete loss of memory when people have forgotten who they were, and their past life has become an absolute blank. In a case, a man has to begin life all over again. He loses his identity and has to learn to be another person.
In the way, if a nation knows nothing of its history, it has lost its "nation - memory" and so its identity. It is practically a nation, with all to learn. And if we know nothing of the history of our country, we cannot have the true feeling of nationhood, for we enter into its traditions national, feelings, and ambitions. On the other hand, a knowledge of its history gives us the key to the spirit of nation.
The present has grown out of the past. We cannot understand our present customs, thoughts, ideas, and present institutions. If we do not how all these things have become what they are. The history of the past explains the present.
And the future will spring out of the . What we shall be and do as a nation depends on what we are and do now, resulting from what we were and in the past. Therefore, politicians must know history to save their nation from committing the mistakes of the past again and guide it on the lines in the future.