"The ultimate aim of historical writing is the bringing before us the whole truth."
— Leopold von Ranke

January 1, 1970

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Statement quoted in Edward Gaylord Bourne, ‘Leopold Von Ranke’, The Sewanee Review, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Aug., 1896), p. 392