Macaulay's Essay, "The Task Of The Modern Historian."

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Macaulay The best historians of later times have been seduced from truth, not by their imagination, but by their reason. They far excel their predecessors in the art of deducing g
[Historians] have fallen into the error of distorting facts to suit general principles -- a little exaggeration, a little suppression, a judicious use of epithets, ... [anything th

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