It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can. It is perhaps because they can be useful to him in this respect that he tolerates their existence. All statements about the past can be considered as very crude ways of expressing possible, hypothetical judgments about future experiences. Historical knowledge is the knowledge of what mind has done in the past, and at the same time it is the redoing of this, the perpetuation of past acts in the present. Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
History is a damn dim candle over a damn dark abyss.