I have read somewhere or other,—in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,—that history is philosophy teaching by examples.1
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On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.
Note 1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (quoting Thucydides), Ars Rhet. xi. 2, says: “The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.” [back]
