Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn’t have the detection techniques in those days.
I’ve always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans – the original Americans.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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