I'm reading a history book that is almost 100 yrs old it contains some wild claims of which I can find neither confirmation nor rebuttal with a bit of googling hmm I'm not sure whether to be increasingly skeptical of the book or increasingly skeptical of google
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Durant's story of civilization, vol 1. wife got me the set for christmas, I'm finally starting it now
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i am so excited for you! things get a little less weird once he gets to better documented history, which would be a sad except that it turns out he and his wife are exceptionally good biographers
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re: the book being almost 100 years old wait til you get to his summaries of japan, china, and india, and check his predictions about their futures against what happened
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