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Herbert George Wells  : Outline of History, The

As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. When he gets past clerical & medieval times he's quite sound from a Left point of view till he gets to Napoleon! But [underlined] how [end underlining] jealous he is of all great men from Pericles and J. Caesar to everyone else. You see him saying: "No! I couldn't do what Alexander did. So I'll do for [underlined] his [end underlining] reputation!" And the joke of it is that he damns every one of them - Solomon, Mahomet, Alexander, Julius Caesar & the rest for being untrustworthy with women! I've never seen Satan so splendidly reprove sin.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

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