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Notebook: stitches in time.(Editorial)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20050401
Author:Lapham, Lewis H.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

--Ambrose Bierce

The train from Paris to Brussels passes through fields sown for 2,000 years with the seed of war, and on the way north last February 1 to the opening sessions of this year's European Parliament, I was reminded of the brightly beribboned armies--Saxon, Roman, Norman, English, French, Spanish, Austrian, German, and American--that had enriched the soil with the compost of military glory. Because I tend to read history with no particular beast or century in mind, I lose sight of the chronology in the melee of ...

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