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Auden, W. H. "D. H. Lawrence." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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Eban, Abba. Speech in London. 16 Dec. 1970, London, England, UK.

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Inge, William Ralph. The End of an Age and Other Essays. Putnam, 1948, ch. 6.

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Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens. A History of Europe. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935, preface.

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Voltaire. L'ingenu. 1767, ch. 10.

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Voltaire. "Ingenuous." Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories, translated by Daniel A. Frame. Signet, 2009, ch. 10.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part I." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 2.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 3.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 3.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "On History." Fraser's Magazine, 1830.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "On History." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 27, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Marx, Karl. Die heilige Familie [The Holy Family]. Frankfurt: J. Ru˜tten, 1845.

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Marx, Karl. "The Holy Family." Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Vol. 4, International Publishers, 1975.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Oratore [On the Orator]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, ch. 9, sect. 36.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: On the Orator, Books I-II, translated by E. W. Sutton and H. Rackham. Harvard University Press, 1948, bk. 2, ch. 9, sect. 36.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End of Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2, Routledge, 1995, ch. 25.

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Barnes, Julian. "Parenthesis." A HIstory of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

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Brenan, Gerald. Times Literary Supplement. 28 Nov. 1986.

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