History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central
and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into
causes.
Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the
historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic
of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied
them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
-- George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, 1918
...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central
and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into
causes.
Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the
historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic
of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied
them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
-- George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, 1918
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