"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
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Christmas greetings! (and two eighteenth-century prints of the nativity)
Wishing a merry Christmas to all my readers who celebrate the holiday.
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