The historian R.G. Collingwood believed, as do many others, that only by studying the past can the present and perhaps future be better understood. Whilst most people have a good grasp of where they currently are, almost everyone would ideally like to have more information to try to establish where they may be going in the future.
It often helps to look back at the past, to see how the present situation has evolved from it and the factors an trends which perhaps may still bear an influence on circumstances in the future…
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