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How can he place himself in such an attitude, and with such comprehensive sureness of vision, as to say that the thirteenth century was better or higher or worse or lower than the nineteenth?
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John Morley
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Morley contemplates the difficulty of assessing the relative merits of different centuries, emphasizing the complexity of historical judgment.
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