Quotes About Fustel de Coulanges

From Fustel de Coulanges to his student, Durkheim, is but a short step. Durkheim's distinction between the sacred and the profane, and his linking of the sacred to the social are but a broadening and systematization of what Fustel had confined to the classical city-state.

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