Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1911 — The Partisanship of Historians, [ARTICLE]

The Partisanship of Historians,

Every historian likes to be Impartial; bat how can an Englishman be expected calmly to weigh and adjust the motives and methods of the Spanish in the Armada? What biographer of Lord Nelson appreciates the discipline and strategy of his FYench and Spanish opponents? What Frenchman feelß that the German campaign oi 1806 was a causeless assault upon a weaker power? War breeds war; the conqueror feels the need of maintaining his reputation, and the conquered seeks revenge. Then the Incidents of warfare In the field leave an ineffaceable mark of savagery, writes Prof. Albert Bushwell Hart; so that fbr decades women In western Europe terrir fled their whimpering children into alienee by the threat that the Croats would get them. There are parts of central France where the brutality of the Angevin kings of England to still remembered after six centuries.