Modern historians, excoriating the past evils of e.g. slavery and imperialism are taking the understanding of history back to its roots in the western world, when the past was used as a vehicle for moral lessons.
Cicero said that study of the past ‘casts light on reality and is a guide to life (magistra vitae)’.
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