The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness o…

T. S. Eliot
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.478, Faber & Faber
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.478, Faber & Faber

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