For myself, I would rather not write history than write it for the purpose of following the prejudices and passions of the times.Here, someone makes the Capetians descend from the Merovingians; there, someone else has it that the name very Christian has always been applied to the {French} princes.They don't form a system after reading history; they begin with the system and then search for the proofs.
-Montesquieu
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