Date : JULY 20, 2023

Tuesday

Instructor : INSTR. AIRE SHANE A. TABARNERO, LPT

Science and Technology Instructor II
General Education Department

Subject : HISTORIAHI
REAPHIS (Reading in Philippine History) Activity Day 1

Instructions: Students will be randomly picking definition of history collected

throughout the centuries/years inside a box. They will critically analyze the
passage and interpret the meaning behind the text. They need to give color to
history and give real-life examples.

Introduction Sample
Teacher: Group 1…
Everyone: HISTORIAHI
Group 1: Present interpretation

COLLECTION OF DEFINITION OF HISTORY Arnold J. Toynbee

Pithy History Definitions
No one could argue that the best definition
isn't a short one, but it helps if you can be
witty as well.
John Jacob Anderson
"History is a narration of the events which
have happened among mankind, including an
account of the rise and fall of nations, as well
as of other great changes which have affected
the political and social condition of the
human race." (John Jacob Anderson)
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
"History is not what you thought. It is what
you remember. All other history defeats
itself." (1066 and All That)
James Joyce
"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from
which I am trying to awake." (Ulysses)
"History not used is nothing, for all
intellectual life is action, like practical life, and
if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well
be dead."
The Psycho-Historian
Between 1942 and 1944, the science fiction
writer Isaac Asimov wrote the first short
stories which were to become the basis for
the Foundation trilogy. The main concept of
the Foundation Trilogy is that if you are a
good enough mathematician, you can
accurately predict the future, based on the
record of the past. Asimov read very widely
indeed, so it should come as no surprise that
his ideas were based on the writings of other
historians.
Charles Austin Beard
"If a science of history were achieved, it
would, like the science of celestial mechanics,
make possible the calculable prediction of the
future in history. It would bring the totality of
historical occurrences within a single field
and reveal the unfolding future to its last end,
including all the apparent choices made and
to be made. It would be omniscience. The
creator of it would possess the attributes
ascribed by the theologians to God. The future
once revealed, humanity would have nothing
to do except to await its doom."
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
"History is and should be a science ... History
is not the accumulation of events of every
kind which happened in the past. It is the
science of human societies."
Voltaire
"The first foundations of all history are the
recitals of the fathers to the children,
transmitted afterward from one generation to
another; at their origin, they are at the very
most probable, when they do not shock
common sense, and they lose one degree of
probability in each generation." (The
Philosophical Dictionary)
Edward Hallett Carr
"History is ... a dialogue between the present
and the past. (originally: Geschichte ist ... ein
Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und
Vergangenheit.)" (What Is History?)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The major lessons of history? There are four:
First, whom the gods destroy they first make
mad with power. Second, the mills of God
grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.
Third, the bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
Fourth, when it is dark enough you can see
the stars." (Attributed to historian Charles
Austin Beard, but this version is the
one Martin Luther King used in "The death of
evil upon the seashore")
A Pack of Tricks
Not everyone likes the study of history or
finds it useful. Henry Ford was a prime
example of that and so was Henry David
Thoreau, what may be one of the very few
things those two gentlemen had in common.
Voltaire
"History is nothing but a pack of tricks we
play on the dead." (French original) "J'ay vu
un temps où vous n'aimiez guères l'histoire.
Ce n'est après tout qu'un ramas de
tracasseries qu'on fait aux morts ... "
Henry David Thoreau
"As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to
wonder at in them so much as the fact that so
many men could be found degraded enough
to spend their lives constructing a tomb for
some ambitious booby, whom it would have
been wiser and manlier to have drowned in
the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."
(Walden)
Jane Austen
"History, real solemn history, I cannot be
interested in. I read it a little as a duty, but it
tells me nothing that does not either vex or
weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings,
with wars or pestilences, in every page; the
men all so good for nothing, and hardly any
women at all—it is very tiresome."
(Northanger Abbey)
Ambrose Bierce
"HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of
events mostly unimportant, which are
brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and
soldiers mostly fools: Of Roman history,
great Niebuhr's shown 'Tis nine-tenths lying.
Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept
great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he
blundered and how much he lied." (Devil's
Dictionary)
Malcolm X
"A race of people is like an individual man; "The History of every major Galactic
until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its Civilization tends to pass through three
own history, expresses its own culture, distinct and recognizable phases, those of
affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication,
itself." otherwise known as the How, Why and
Where phases. For instance, the first phase is
The Passage of Time
characterized by the question "How can we
Whether you like history or not, there's no eat?" the second by the question "Why do we
denying the impact it leaves on us. eat?" and the third by the question "Where
shall we have lunch?" (Hitchhiker’s Guide to
Henry David Thoreau the Universe)
"Most events recorded in history are more According to Prufrock
remarkable than important, like eclipses of
the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, T.S. Eliot
but whose effects no one takes the trouble to
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
calculate." (A Week on the Concord and
Think now
Merrimack Rivers.)
History has many cunning passages,
Gusti Bienstock Kollman contrived corridors
And issues, deceives with whispering
"You know, it's so strange, I've lived through ambitions,
four forms of government in my life: Guides us by vanities. Think now
monarchy, republic, Hitler's Reich, American She gives when our attention is distracted
democracy. The [Weimar] republic was And what she gives, gives with such supple
only ... 1918 to 1933, that's fifteen years! confusions
Imagine that, only fifteen years. But, then, That the giving famishes the craving. Gives
Hitler was going to last a thousand years and too late
he lasted only ... 1933 to 1945 ... twelve, What's not believed in, or if still believed,
twelve years only! Hah!" In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives
Plutarch too soon
Into weak hands, what's thought can be
"So very difficult a matter it is to trace and dispensed with
find out the truth of anything by history." Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think
(Plutarch's Lives) Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural
vices
Douglas Adams
Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
These tears are shaken from the wrath-
bearing tree.
("The Waste Land", Prufrock and Other
Poems)
REFERENCES
WHAT IS HISTORY: A collection of Definitions
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-history-collection-of-definitions-171282