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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

THE WHIG TENDENCY TO TRY TO AVOID THE PIG'S BREAKFAST OF HISTORY

What is discussed is the tendency of many historians to write on the side of the Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasize certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.
Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation Of History

Contrary to what one might suppose, Butterfield was a devout Protestant.

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