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The Limits of History
Having thus brought the generals of the two nations
Digression on the limits of history.
and the war itself into Italy, before beginning
the campaign, I wish to say a few words about
what I conceive to be germane or not to
my history.
I can conceive some readers complaining that, while
devoting a great deal of space to Libya and Iberia, I have said
little or nothing about the strait of the Pillars of Hercules, the
Mare Externum, or the British Isles, and the manufacture of
tin in them, or even of the silver and gold mines in Iberia itself,
of which historians give long and contradictory accounts. It was
not, let me say, because I thought these subjects out of place in
history that I passed them over; but because, in the first place,
I did not wish to be diffuse, or distract the attention of students
from the main current of my narrative; and, in the next place,
because I was determined not to treat of them in scattered
notices or casual allusions, but to assign