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Issue 103 “The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives.” History is a mirror. As Chinese old saying goes, studying history makes one wise and reasonable. More and more people become to realize the benefits of researches into history, believing that it can provide them values only if what they have learned from history can be relevant to their daily lives. But is this really the case? I cannot agree with them without any reserves. First of all, studying history benefits us beyond daily lives by leading us to look back into the past and gain experience to apply to our world nowadays. The most typical example is the study of philosophy. Studying the history of philosophy, we acknowledge what problems the great thinkers have ever contemplated and what wisdom they have gained from musing, or see clearly how the philosophical theories debate and develop. More specifically, Sun Tzu, a famous philosopher of Chinese ancient times, wrote the book “The Art of War” thousands of years ago stating various strategies in wars, now are being highly spoken of by both military commanders and business leaders. They use these strategies like a kind of art into wars between countries or companies, to gain military victory or success in the market competition, affecting directly or indirectly what will happen in the future. This has been out the bound of people’s daily lives, while study of philosophy has the power to affect the future world. Secondly, the history of science though seems meaningless if people only care its applicable uses in daily life, it is indispensable for the existence and development of human beings as a whole. History of science exhibits us not only success but also failures. Success such as Newton’s Classical Mechanism and Mendel’s experiments of inheritance, of which one provides a basic frame for classical physics studies and the other is the foundation of the disciplines of genetics, play significant roles in giving