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“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of the past is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can then denounce for our own (frequently political) motives - an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them.”