57、The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times
Actually, it is sometimes true that the main benefit of study of history is to dispel the illusion of the great difference between the life in earlier times and at present. However, I propose there also exist differences and this issue should be probed in depth in order to have a rational viewpoint towards the life between in earlier time and at present.
Sometimes, we learn because we want to know; we learn because we are curious. Indeed, history is no such an exception. We study history sometimes because we are wondering about the way people live in the past time. And the result comes to that inherently, we live similarily compared to those lived in the earlier time. Becasue we haven't change much about the process: from birth to grow up, from marriage to old, and from old to death. No one can escape from the constant process of life, from the ancient to the present. In a more biological aspect, it doesn't change due to the fact that we are also the part of the planet and nothing different compared to those creatures else being exist or once existed on the beautiful planet.
However, there still stands significant differnence between the living of people in the earlier time and the past time. To some extent, it is due to the fact that we are human with the ability to create tools and to convey treasure to our next generation to rather than animals. And that makes the difference. For example, the civilization of human kind is accelerated greatly by the development of technology. From a historic repective , in16th century, people could not imagine that people in the 19th century could drive a car without a horse. While people in the 19th century could not believe that people in the 20th century could travel around the world within 24 hours, which has become so quotidian to us, who live in the 21th century. In addtion, according to a recent survey conducted by the NFK, about 70 percentage of the total participates agree with the viewpoint that their life has changed greatly compared to life of their parents at their age, and more maintain the viewpoint that the future would also change dramatically when their next generation grows up. Thus, people's living actually has different from that of the past, which is also told by the study of history.
In conclusion, the study of history indeed gives us a precious aspect to take an insight into people's living. Not just similarities there is also difference due to a combination of the dual aspects of history--the continueness and the varience.
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发表于 2012-2-6 18:02:55
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