• Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, no epoch was more naturally mad.

  Source: A Distant Mirror

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 1912-1989
  

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1. self-interest
2. criterion
3. naturally
4. epoch

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Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, no epoch was more naturally mad. by : Barbara W. Tuchman

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