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| Throughout history, the attachment of even the humblest people to their freedom…has come as an unpleasant shock to condescending ideologues. | The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. | Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye. | The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. |
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