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Any Event, Once It Has Occurred, Can Be Made To Appear Inevitable By A Competent Historian.
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Any event, once it has occurred,
can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
-- Lee Simonson
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Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....