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The result of my attempt was to convince me that our ignorance of the last sixty years is colossal.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “The result of my attempt was to convince me that our ignorance of the last sixty years is colossal.”
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Morley expresses his realization of the vast ignorance surrounding historical events over the past sixty years.
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