
The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition
Isaiah Berlin
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The Misfortune of Mankind
Myths are simply idiotic nonsense, which a lot of idiots have managed to contrive to persuade themselves to believe. The lit material not the first or the last to have this particular view of history. If only philosophers of a wise and knowing and knowledgeable kind had been present at the birth of mankind... we might have saved all the horrors for which religion is largely responsible. This is exactly what lucretias believes b it the curas believed. It's what a great many persons ha believed ever since. But i i certainly how vultaire writes. And he says, we know perfectly well what is true and what is falth.
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