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It appeared to me therefore that, as M. Guizot could not intend to adopt the paradoxes of his predecessor, it would rather assist than embarass him, in establishing his own position, to have those paradoxes refuted, and that it was better that this would be done by me than that the ungracious task of refuting his predecessor should, by my neglect, devolve upon him.

M. (François) Guizot - Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 6)