Sunday, January 02, 2005

two kinds of histories

i just read in a book that there are two kinds of histories:
ones that inspire mankind to virtue; and
ones that inspire mankind to truth..
on introspection i must admit to preferring to read the latter and propogate the former..
must be my arrogant intinctive assumption about the general lack of intelligence in the greatest common denominator..
frightening- this insight into my own mind..

as a post script to that - i wonder what kind of history the conservation movement prefers.. considering the 'Listing Project' that i am working on.

the book, by the way, is robert graves' 'i, claudius'..

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