“The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. book The Disuniting of America
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W W Norton, 1993) p. 93
“History a distillation of Rumour.”
Pt. I, Bk. VII, ch. 5.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)
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[Allan, George, 1972, Croce and Whitehead on Concrescence, 2, 2, Process Studies, 95–111, http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2328, . Allan lists the sources Croce, History as the Story of Liberty, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1941 (see [Croce, 1938] ) and Croce, History: Its Theory and Practice, New York: Russell & Russell, 1960., 10.5840/process19722215, 27 June 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20111102045431/http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2328, 2 November 2011, dead]
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Variant translations: Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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Source: Walpoliana, No. 141.