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Newton also thought that by sticking needles dipped in Mercury into his eyes he could see colors outside range of the human eye's spectrum. Whig historiography has a massive survivorship bias that ignores all the constant fuckups to present an image of progress being a straight path with only positive results. Fuck FDR, fuck Herbert Butterfield, and most of all fuck Teleology.
Neat, I just got a good idea for my next substack essay.