History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2013 History
Who has remarked, 'history is more interesting than a novel'?
ADavid Hume ✓ Correct
BToynbee
CLivy
DTacitus
Correct answer: (A) David Hume — David Hume made this remark, so the answer is David Hume.
Explanation
★David Hume made this remark, so the answer is David Hume.
★He held that the true story of the past can be more gripping than fiction.
★Hume was a Scottish philosopher of the Enlightenment.
★He was also a historian and an economist.
★He is best known for his system of empiricism, scepticism and naturalism.
★He wrote a famous multi-volume History of England.
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