One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued a — John Carey
One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued a — John Carey
One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued a — John Carey
One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued a — John Carey
One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued a — John Carey
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One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

— John Carey
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