pretations of facts are often subject to historians' beliefs and the beliefs of their societies. Each historian's word becomes a part of history. As Carr says, "The historian...is also a social phenomenon, both the product and the conscious or unconscious spokesman of the society to which he belongs; it is this capacity that he approaches the facts of the historical past (Carr 42)." Sir Geoffrey Elton argued that "the present must be kept out of the past if the search for the truth of that past is to move towards such success as in the circumstance
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