4. History has great cultural value. one who knows history can talk intelligently with cultured people, can read worth-while literature, appreciate the best music and art and the writings of great thinkers, and enjoy many of the finer things of life much more thoroughly than one who is not familiar with it.
5. The reading of history is a profitable and pleasant way to spend one’s leisure time. Much of history is as thrilling as any novel, and some of the finest stories ever written are founded upon historical facts. You may meet almost face to face the great men and women of all times as you read their letters, diaries, and addresses.
6. History helps us to set up high ideals. It tells us of men like Moses and Socrates and Alfred and Washington, and women like Florence Nightingale, who tired to help others to be happier or freer or better, and also of men like Sargon and Napoleon and Hitler, and women like Catherine de Medici, who were selfish, cruel dictators or hopeless blunders. It asks of us, “Whom would you be like?”
Are there many people to whom a knowledge of history would be of no use whatever? Why is it that people sometimes think history is uninteresting? If you read of a person or event of past times, can you, in your imagination, make that person or event live before you? Try to do so. How should the study of history make one a better citizen? (248 words)
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