Carl L. Becker Quotes

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The past is a kind of screen upon which we project our vision of the future.
— Carl L. Becker Western Political Quarterly

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The truth that all historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
— Carl L. Becker The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

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