<p>In 1931, a Cambridge don, Herbert Butterfield, published <em>The Whig Interpretation of History.</em> The Whig historian, Butterfield said, is a bad historian because in embracing the British Whigs’ faith in freedom he studies the past, not for its own sake, but “with reference to the present.” In concentrating on the consequences, for liberty, of the acts of revolutionary statesmen, the Whig historian distorts history, and makes it into a narrative of the triump
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