"Man is greatly tempted to see in past events the directing hand of God, or ineluctable Fate, or historical laws. The Americans were long inclined to believe that they were a chosen people, that they had a special mission, that the Deity guided them as He did the ancient Israelits. The historian, alas, must obtain his information from defective human records and remains. He cannot find the decree of the Divine declaring such to be His intentions."
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John Richard Alden
John Richard Alden (23 January 1908 – 14 August 1991) was an American professor of history and winner of the 1945 Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association.
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