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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the face of them the public is quite excusable if it declares
itself at a loss what to believe.
These, however, are cases in which criticism has at least made
some show of ascertaining the truth and detecting the causes of
the prevalent misconception. That men like Catiline and Tiberius
should have had their characters blackened is quite easily
explicable. President Johnson would have little better chance of
obtaining justice at the hands of posterity, if the most widely
read history of his administration should happen to be written by
a radical member of the Rump Congress. But the cases which Mr.
Delepierre invites us to contemplate are of a different
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