c.g. wedgewood, offered a crisp summary of the principle. she wrote history is lived forwards but written in retrospect. we know the end before we consider the beginning and we could never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only. we should try. and not everyone does. novelist phillip roth has written deftly that one of america's fervently embraced communal passions is indulging an ecstasy of sanctimony about self-defined advancements over others, condemning failings of others past and present, an

the astoundingly good british historian, c.g. wedgewood, offered a crisp summary of the principle. she wrote history is lived forwards but written in retrospect. we know the end before we consider the beginning and we could never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only. we should try. and not everyone does. novelist phillip roth has written deftly that one of america's fervently embraced communal passions is indulging an ecstasy of sanctimony about self-defined advancements over others, condemning failings of others past and present, an ecstasy of sanctimony. carry that home with you. a reminder to the heresy that inflamed the world something that souls are saved only by grace so there is no reason to hue to any moral law or avoid malfeasance whatsoever once you have signed on behavior becomes irrelevant. in a kind of reversal of that, confederates as secular infidels their testimony about lee or anything else does not have standing. a bright youngster from ohio, who loved the civil war since he was a small boy, went on a lot of tours with me. while he was still, he