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Quotation by Johan Huizinga
People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.
Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian. In the Shadow of Tomorrow, ch. 11 (1936).
On popular misrepresentations of history.
On popular misrepresentations of history.
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