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Maybe so, but it still reeks of Whig History - these works are to be praised because they happen to most closely align with a certain socio-political view that many Tropers happen to hold. It's very clearly sending a normative message - it's using language like
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Maybe so, but it still reeks of Whig History - these works are to be praised because they happen to most closely align with a certain socio-political view that many Tropers happen to hold. It\'s sending a normative message - it\'s using language like \"fair\" and \"enlightened\", which in this context seems to mean that the view being presented (liberalism of some sort) is clearly and unproblematically supposed to be considered the best. What about, say, social conservatives, who might consider the \"Fair For Their Day\" works to be just the wrongheaded forerunners of the even more wrong-headed modern attitude?
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