"Rigorous presentation of the facts, however conditional and lacking in beauty they may be, is without question the supreme law."
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January 1, 1970

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Leopold von Ranke, ‘Gesch. der Röm. und Germ. Völker’, p. vii, quoted in Edward Gaylord Bourne, ‘Leopold Von Ranke’, The Sewanee Review, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Aug., 1896), p. 390