The first page of Thucydides is, in my opinion, the commencement of real history. All preceding narrations are so intermixed with fable, that philosophers ought to abandon them, in a great measure, to the embellishment of poets and orators.
David Hume, Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary II.XI.98
Liberty Fund, Indianopolis: 1985.
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