“To the historian, the activities whose history he is studying are not spectacles to be watched, but experiences to be lived through in his own mind; they are objective, or known to him, only because they are also subjective, or activities of his own.” – R.G.Collingwood
(The Idea of History)
इतिहास हा शब्द आपण अनेक भिन्न अर्थांनी वापरतो; पण त्यांपैकी इतिहासाचे दोन अन्वयार्थ विशेष महत्त्वपावले आहेत. इतिहासाचा संबंध काळाशी, विशेषतः भूतकाळाशी असतो आणि गतकाळात घडलेल्या विविध घटना – विवक्षित अवकाश व कालात घडलेल्या – असतात.