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How to Read History or "De Descriptione Temporum" by C.S. Lewis

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The Importance of Studying the Past

A lot of people that listen to our podcast think that way. They go, I'll go read the fantasties and then they pick it up and they're like, what? What's the tree? Is that what's trees? That's why we have a podcast. If everybody could just read it and get the exact same things out of it, why listen to us? Yeah, you need to listen to dinosaurs from time to time. Right. Well, can I close with a quote that he closes with that? Right. He says, I do not think you need to fear that the study of a dead period, however prolonged or sympathetic, needs prove an indulgence in nostalgia

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