History

Rule & Law

•      Historian’s Rule: Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

•      Wolf’s Law: Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors. Those who do study it will find other ways to err. – Charles Wolf, Jr.

Lee Simonson, quoted by Herbert Prochnow in the Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest

Quote

•      History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstance.

Donald Creighton, Towards the Discovery of Canada