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Samuel E. Morison

American Historian

Born: Jul 9, 1887

Died: May 15, 1976

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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction. Samuel E. Morison

Life Respect Balance Courage Honesty Will Young Rich Philosophy Find Embraces Above Purpose Tradition Historical Person Durable Any Rewards Young Person Who Profession Satisfaction

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts. Samuel E. Morison

Truth Starts Everyone Define Come Agree

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. Samuel E. Morison

Sense Circumstances See Methodology Historical Common Common Sense Product Applied

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. Samuel E. Morison

Nothing Offer Revolutionary Even Novel

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. Samuel E. Morison

Quality Honesty Honesty Is Free More Countries Does Always Nor Intellectual Historians Expect Than Expected Get Often Public Much

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. Samuel E. Morison

Myself History Garden Experience First Out About Laws Vast Troubling Without How Coming Causes Cultivated Essential Human Which Human Experience

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. Samuel E. Morison

Time Space Mind Soldier Statesman Though Force Make Make Up Time And Space His Historian Up Same Decisions Urgency Less

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces. Samuel E. Morison

War History Beard Reflection Military Side Evolution Insignificant Economic Detested Economic Forces Throughout Writings Mere Forces Always Were His Left Show Hence Slanted Right

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