Contemporary Quote by Leopold von Ranke
“You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.”
![“To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).” quote by Leopold von Ranke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a64/leopold-von-ranke-41738_age_to-history-has-been-assigned-the-office_777679.jpg)
