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If the historian finds himself resorting to metaphor or cliché, that may well be a warning that things have not been sufficiently worked out, and substantiated, to be conveyed in plain simple prose.

— Arthur Marwick

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Anachronism is still one of the most obvious faults when the unqualified (those expert in other disciplines, perhaps) attempt to do history.

The insistence that language determines ideas, and is itself a system arising from the existing power structure in society, is as grandiose a piece of speculative thought as ever dreamed up by Hegel or Nietzche.

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