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- From: hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell)
- Subject: Re: Truth in History
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.103240.29549@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:32:40 GMT
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- djm1@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Don Mabry) writes:
-
- A very interesting piece about knowledge & truth in history, which
- contained one small irony that people might like to toss around:
- [Some people believed that Roman]
- : Catholic Cuba was not Christian and, for them, intervention meant
- : saving Cuban souls.
-
- Compare this with the justifications put forward by some of the
- Spanish prelates in the sixttenth century for the original Spanish
- conquest of the continent. If there is an afterlife and de las Casas de
- Vitoria, Seulveda and co were watching th second time round they must have
- felt quite at home!
- O.K. I know it's fantasy. Back to serious matters
-
- Richard PEnnell History NUS
-