... own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow." My desktop dictionary defines History as: "A chronological record of events, as of the development of a people--" And I would have been perfectly happy that. However, they had to add "--often ... ...

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