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‘A financial system … constantly improved, can change a government’s position,’ remarked Frederick the Great, who knew a thing or two about both.
After Tamerlane
John Darwin
Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald has even argued that the ratcheting up in virulence of the flu virus that summer was a direct response to conditions on the Western Front.8 It is often said that the optimal strategy for an agent of infectious disease that is transmitted directly from host to host is to moderate its virulence, so that an infected host remains alive for long enough to spread the disease far and wide.
As John Gunther once said of journalism, “A reporter with no bias at all would be a vegetable.”
Practicing History
Barbara W. Tuchman
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