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A serious look at a nearly forgotten man of history

By David M. Shribman
March 18, 2010

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If we think of him at all, and in today’s short-attention-span sophistication we hardly do, we think of Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay as a man of great certainties: Of the primacy of England. Of the virtues of empire. Of the irrepressible human capacity to improve. Of history’s irresistible path of progress. (Full article: 707 words)

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