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Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. Harcourt, Brace and Company/Routledge, 1934, ch. 1, sect. 2.

Human blunders, however, usually, do more to shape history than human wickedness.

A.J.P. Taylor

The Origins of the Second World War

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Taylor, A. J. P. The Origins of the Second World War. Hamish Hamilton, 1961, ch. 10.

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De Voto, Bernard. The Year of Decision: 1846. Little, Brown and Company, 1943, ch. 17.

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Lord Acton. "Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish History." The History of Freedom and Other Essays. Macmillan, 1907.

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Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. Oxford University Press, 1962, introduction.

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Herr, Michael. "Breathing Out." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 8.

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Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. Harcourt, Brace and Company/Routledge, 1934, ch. 5, sect. 7.

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Johnson, Gerald W. American Heroes and Hero-Worship. Harper & Brothers, 1943.

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Zeno. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 7, ch. 1, sect. 87.

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Zeno. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 7, ch. 1, sect. 87.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

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Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 1.

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Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 47.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 47.

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Herodotus. Histories. c. 430 BC, bk. 7.

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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7.

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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 1.

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Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, ch. 68.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 68.

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Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 2, ch. 173.

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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 173.

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Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People]. c. 731, preface.

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Bede. "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Sima Qian

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Suma Quin. Written sometime around c. 110 BC.

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Suma Qian. Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated by Burton Watson. Vol. 2, Columbia University Press, 1961, ch. 118.