[Big Fish]3月3日Issue103 by-Sansouci

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3.03 Issue No.103

"The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives."

Whether appraise a matter is valuable, it is necessary for the matter of great use. Obviously, the connotation of value is exactly right in accord with the author claim that the investment of history which relevant to our lives is appreciable. I agree insofar as that the extension of history’ study should serve our everyday life is pregnant. Otherwise, whether is it means that if irrelevant history has no meaning to study? The answer surely is “No.”, because some information that historians have is partial and needs careful attention.
First of all, let’s give a definition of history. In a broader sense, is the totality of all past events, although a more realistic definition would limit to the known past. Of all fields of serious study and literary effort, history may be the hardest to define precisely, because of the attempt to uncover past events and formulate an intelligible account of them necessarily involves the use and influence of many auxiliary disciplines and literary forms. The concern of all serious historians has been to have known that the information they have is incomplete, partly incorrect, or biased and requires careful attention. All have tried to discover in the facts patterns of meaning addressed to the enduring questions of human life.
What’s more, there are lots of similarities between the past and present. An example aptly illustrates this point. The financial crisis of 2007- present is a global financial crisis triggered by a liquidity shortfall in the United State banking system. It has resulted in the collapse of large financial institution, the "bail out" of banks by national governments and downturns in stock markets around the world. Although today’s crisis is triggered by global housing bubble and lacking of supervision of the financial market, which are totally different from the 1930s’ crisis, facing with these crisis, there are lots of similarities in measures taken by government to fight against the crisis. Thus, past use for relevant today, and indirectly institute us extract from bog.
Finally, some information is partial, even irrelevant to our daily life, which only due to being different areas. For instance, Charles Duell, an official at the US patent office in 1899, predicted everything that can be invented has been invented. However, in the coming century, millions of new inventions came into being changed human’s life. The past prediction for present seems ridiculous even irrelevant to our reality, but it illustrates that progress of human beings is uninterrupted.
Without past, our life becomes eventually inefficient. Without present, history seems unmeaning. Thus, while our daily lives become nicer and more continuously for the reason of valuable history.