The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history — which is of course part of natural history — and pass it on in falsified form just because it is customary to do so, when we know that all history is falsified and always transmitted in falsified form.

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