"In fiction, the principles are given, to find
the facts: in history, the facts are given,
to find the principles; and the writer
who does not explain the phenomena
as well as state them performs
only one half of his office."
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
"History," Edinburgh Review, 1828
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Tempus fugit
The summer has gone too fast. Too much to do, not enough rain, not enough work accomplished.
Time flies, but I would still like to take the liberty of adding a small backlog of brief posts on historical anniversaries of recent weeks. Precisely because they are historical, they don't really go out of date.
Watch for more in this space soon.
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