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Perhaps it is the most valuable, as it is clearly the most sure result of that science, that it has dispelled the dreams of other days as to a primitive high civilisation.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Perhaps it is the most valuable, as it is clearly the most sure result of that science, that it has dispelled the dreams…”
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He asserts that the science of history has debunked myths of a primitive high civilization.
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