Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges quotes:

History is and should be a science.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de