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THE POLITICAL VALUE OF HISTORY
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gotten in the fierce excitement of a party contest; but if history has any meaning, it is such considerations that affect most vitally the permanent well-being of communities, and it is by observing this moral current that you can best cast the horoscope of a nation.

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at the Edinburgh University Press.