The Age of Facts

A mystery for centuries meant what God knows, and we do not. After a while the mystery began yielding to the fact as the elemental unit of knowledge. The pathologist who examined Lucina Broadwell's body in 1919 was looking for a cause of death, a fact. In a century on, that's what I'm doing. Historians are coroners too. A lot more things than murders used to be mysteries.

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