In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

Margaret MacMillan
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  1. We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

  2. In a secular world, which is what most of us in Europe and North America live in, history takes on the role of showing us good and evil, virtues and vices. Religion no longer plays as important a part as it once did in setting...

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  4. The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

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