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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It will be very reasonably asked why
I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a
popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to
particular scholarship and am merely a member of the public. The
answer is that I know just enough to know one thing: that a history
from the standpoint of a member of the public has not been written.
What we call the popular histories should rather be called the
anti-popular histories. They are all, nearly without exception,
written against the people; and in them the populace is either
ignored or elaborately proved to have been wrong. It is true that
Green called his book "A Short History of the English People"; but
he seems to have thought it too short for the people to be properly
mentioned. For instance, he calls one very large part of his story
"Puritan England." But England never was Puritan. It would have
been almost as unfair to call the rise of Henry of Navarre "Puritan
France." And some of our extreme Whig historians would have been
pretty nearly capable of calling the campaign of Wexford and
Drogheda "Puritan Ireland."
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