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  • Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). "Leer a Hegel: Las Introducciones", p.115, re.press