Complete the story in your own words in 200-250 words. The bigining of the story is given below. Give a suitable title to the story.
Today early in the morning there was a knock at the gate. My mother got up and opened the door. She cried with......
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The past is so entangled with the present that we cannot understand the political situation in civilised countries without continual reference to situations no longer in existence. To speak platitude then --- history is an explanation of how we come to be doing what we usually do. We are interested in what has occurred chiefly because we want to understand; and we want this again chiefly in order to influence what will occur. Thus unless history gives us some practical knowledge it is useless. It must show us how to change the present into a better future, by showing how the past became the present.
But this chief task of the historian, to keep his interest in the future in spite of his knowledge of the past, is the chief difficulty in the study of history. For as the past may absorb one’s attention and take one’s eyes away from the future, the mind may be entangled in the jungle of dead ages. The historian may lose his way out of it, and even delight in the roots and undergrowth which keep him from the open. He may become a pamphleteer for some form of political ‘restoration’. And perhaps the only method of avoiding this and of keeping the purpose of history clear is to regard the past as what it once was, a future, and to think of the change as moving in front of us rather than as all over.
This, then, must be the meaning we give to the idea of development with respect to political conceptions of what is worth having. The present situation must be our central interest. We look back in order to look forward. We must discover the nature of the material with which we have to deal and the method by which it is modified, by tracing its earlier modifications.
It was in France that the long struggle began and took its form. It is therefore interesting to consider the government of that country, and its material and moral condition, at the time when the new ideas first became prominent and forced their way toward fulfillment.
It is seldom in the time of the generation in which they are propounded that new theories of life and its relations bear their first fruit. Only those doctrines which a man learns in his early youth seem to him so completely certain as to deserve to be pushed nearly to their last conclusions.