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The Rediscovery of Europe

George Orwell

The Rediscovery of Europe, 1942 [L.m./F.s.: 2019-12-29 / 0.15 KiB]
‘When I was a small boy and was taught history — very badly, of course, as nearly everyone in England is — I used to think of history as a sort of long scroll with thick black lines ruled across it at intervals. Each of these lines marked the end of what was called a ‘period’, and you were given to understand that what came afterwards was completely different from what had gone before. It was almost like a clock striking...’

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