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“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.” quote by David Hume — Download Open image

“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”

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History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

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My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington…

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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his…

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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer…

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Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes…

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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not…

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History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

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