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... interest in believing it to be so it must be an education in thinking not merely in remembering . An interest in how things happened and a great desire to find out do not make a philosophy of history . But the quest for facts , past or ...
... interest in believing it to be so it must be an education in thinking not merely in remembering . An interest in how things happened and a great desire to find out do not make a philosophy of history . But the quest for facts , past or ...
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... interest . Men followed their beliefs with an independent fidelity ; no class , no group , no family that was not ... interest was a powerful motive force . When has it not been ? It was as much to the King's interest to maintain his own ...
... interest . Men followed their beliefs with an independent fidelity ; no class , no group , no family that was not ... interest was a powerful motive force . When has it not been ? It was as much to the King's interest to maintain his own ...
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... interest . But I was also offended by them . Among other things it distressed me that in Quentin Durward he treated Charles the Bold and Louis XI in a manner quite contrary to historical evidence . . . Comparison convinced me that ...
... interest . But I was also offended by them . Among other things it distressed me that in Quentin Durward he treated Charles the Bold and Louis XI in a manner quite contrary to historical evidence . . . Comparison convinced me that ...
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Introduction | 7 |
The Origins of Germany | 19 |
Martin Luther | 28 |
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