A history of dangerous assumptions: over 200 intriguing and illuminating cases linked by the mysterious mischief of assumption : from the wooden horse of Troy to the dawn of the twenty-first century
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Why I have compiled this history-------------------------------------------- 10 PART ONE: CHRONOLOGICAL Assumption in Ancient Greece ----------------------------------------------- 13 The Garden of Eden----------------------------------------------------------- 16 Hubris in the Book of Proverbs----------------------------------------------- 16 The Wooden Horse of Troy, c. 1180 BC---------------------------------- 16 Xerxes the Great, 480 BC------------------------------------------------------ 18 Sun Tzu, Fifth Century BC--------------------------------------------------- 19 Plato’s Dialogues, from 399 BC------------------------------------------------ 20 A Flat Earth?---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Ambiguity of the Oracles------------------------------------------------------- 21 Hannibal’s Crossing of the Alps, 218 BC------------------------------------ 22 The Birth of Christianity------------------------------------------------------- 23 Pliny the Younger--------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Weakness of the Later Roman Empire: the Emperor Valerian, AD 253-268__________________________________________ 27 The Invention of Chess---------------------------------------------------------- 28 Ockham’s Razor------------------------------------------------------------------ 29 The Middle Ages ----------------------------------------------------------------- 29 An Architect of the Renaissance and his Enemies, 1462 ----------------- 31 Richard III and Henry VII: history written by the victor
----------------- 33 Shakespearean Tragedy---------------------------------------------------------- 33 The Scottish Play: Macbeth, 1606-------------------------------------------- 33 Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote, 1605, 1615 -------------------------- 34 Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626 ----------------------------------------------- 36 Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646----------------------- 37 René Descartes, 1644 ---------------------------------------------------------- 37
Baruch Spinoza, 1677 ---------------------------------------------------------- 38 John Milton: Paradise Lost, 1667 -------------------------------------------- 39 Pierre Bayle, 1647-1706------------------------------------------------------- 39 Louis XIV: the Decision of 16 November 1700 -------------------------- 42 The Loss of Gibraltar, 1704--------------------------------------------------- 44 The Path to Moscow I: Charles XII of Sweden, 1708-09--------------- 45 The Quebec Expedition, 1711 ----------------------------------------------- 50 The Elusive Northwest Passage----------------------------------------------- 53 Louis XV’s ‘Deerpark’---------------------------------------------------------- 56 Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1742 --------------------------------- 56 Collapse of a Vast Assumption, 1755 ------------------------------------- - 57 Voltaire, Defender of Free Speech, 1758 ----------------------------------- 58 Parliament and the North American Colonies, 1763—1783 ------------- 59 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1783 ----------------------------------------- 60 J.W. von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774 ------------------ 62 Edward Gibbon, 1776 -------------------------------------------------------- 62 Louis XVI: the Flight to Varennes, 21 June 1791------------------------- 64 Joseph Haydn: Massin Troubled Times, 1798 ----------------------------- 65 Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey, 1799 --------------------------------------- 66 J.W. von Goethe: Faust, Part One, 1808------------------------------------ 70 The Path to Moscow IF. Napoleon
Bonaparte, 1812--------------------- 70 Jane Austen: Emma, 1815 ---------------------------------------------------- 73 Thomas Carlyle and the Historian’s Illusion, 1830 ---------------------- 77 Dr David Strauss: Biblical Prophecy and Exegesis, 1835----------------Legend and Myth--------------------------------------------------------------Lord John Russell, an Assumption in Himself, 1838 --------------------The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839—1842 --------------------------------- 77 80 81 82 Marxism, 1848 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 83 Mazeppa, 1852 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 83 Lady Dedlock’s Fatal Assumption, 1852------------------------------------ 85 Pioneer Alpine Mountaineering, 1854 ------------------------------------- 86
Alexander Bain: The Emotions ofthe Will, 1859--------------------------- 87 Charles Darwin: On the Origin ofSpecies, 1859---------------------------- 87 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, 1859------------------------------------------- 88 Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, 1860 --------------------------------- 90 The Battle of Bull Run, June 1861-------------------------------------------92 Professor Tyndall, 1861---------------------------------------------------------- 93 Abraham Lincoln Provoked by his Generals, 1862-3 ------------------- 94 The Matterhorn Illusion, 1864 ----------------------------------------------- 96 Discovery of the Alpine Winter, 1864 -------------------------------------- 97 The Staplehurst Accident, 1865 --------------------------------------------- 98 Victorian Banking, 1866------------------------------------------------------ 100 Mr Casaubon in Middlemarch, 1871-------------------------------------- 100 The Menheniot Accident, 1873--------------------------------------------- 101 The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 ------------------------------------ 102 The Tay Bridge Disaster, 28 December 1879----------------------------- 102 Dr Arthur Conan Doyle and the Science of Deduction, from 1881 -- 105 Paradoxical Words of Oscar Wilde----------------------------------------- 111 The Public Moods of the Later Nineteenth Century--------------------- 112 Diary of a German Prince, 1898 -------------------------------------------- 113 A Book about Assumptions, 1902 ----------------------------------------- 113 Pioneer Alpine Skiing,
1902------------------------------------------------- 113 Ski Racing before the First World War------------------------------------ 114 Military Hubris of the Russian Empire, 1905----------------------------- 115 Pioneer Mountaineering on Ski, 1908, 1912 ----------------------------- 117 A Tribute to Sherlock Holmes?--------------------------------------------- 121 Assumptions in the Sherlock Holmes Stories----------------------------- 121 The Question of Female Suffrage, 1899—1914---------------------------- 122 The Shift in National Moods, 1914---------------------------------------- 124 The Sinking of the Titanic, April 1912------------------------------------ 125 John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1914--------------------------------126 An Agent of the Kaiser, 1914------------------------------------------------ 127
A Reasonable Assumption, August 1914------------------------------------ 128 The Schlieffen-Moltke Plan, 1914------------------------------------------- 129 Over by Christmas’, 1914----------------------------------------------------- 133 Working Assumptions in War, 1916---------------------------------------- 133 How the United States Entered the War, 1917-------------------------- 134 Sir Arnold Bax: November Woods, 1917--------------------------------------134 The Armistice, 1918 and the Treaty of Peace, 1919--------------------- 135 The Abermule Disaster, 1921-------------------------------------------------- 138 Good Advice, 1923------------------------------------------------------------- 140 Invention of the Modern Slalom Race, 1924 ----------------------------- 140 Sir George Jumps to a Conclusion, 1925 --------------------------------- 141 The Murder ofRoger Ackroyd, 1926----------------------------------------- 142 G.K. Chesterton, 1927_____________________________________ 142 Dr Herbert Sumsion, 1928--------------------------------------------------- 145 The ‘Cambridge Five’---------------------------------------------------------- 146 The Mirage of Boa Vista, 1933 ---------------------------------------------- 146 An Abdication and an Assumption, 1936--------------------------------- 148 Winston Churchill in the Thirties ----------------------------------------- 149 Persuasion Methods of Adolf Hitler---------------------------------------- 151 The Propaganda of Dr Goebbels-------------------------------------------- 151 Hitler’s ‘Foot in the Door’: Winter 1933
--------------------------------- 154 The Burning of the Reichstag, 27 February 1933 ------------------------ 161 Churchill, a Voice in the Wilderness--------------------------------------- 162 A Fortnight at a Time with Churchill, 1936-39------------------------- 163 Assumptions of Neville Chamberlain, 1938-40 ------------------------- 164 A Battleship Sunk in Scapa Flow, 1939------------------------------------ 166 Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: the Channel Dash, 1942 -------------------- 167 The Path to Moscow III: what did Hitler learn from Charles XII and Bonaparte?------------------------------------------------------- -------169 Hubris of the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre: Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942 ------------------------------------------------------------- 172
The Battle of Midway, 1942 ------------------------------------------------ 174 The Fall of Singapore, 1942-------------------------------------------------- 175 Another Angle on Hubris: C.S. Lewis, 1943 ----------------------------- 176 D-Day, 1944-------------------------------------------------------------------- 176 Over by Christmas’: Arnhem, September 1944 ------------------------- 180 The Twilight of Dr Goebbels, 1945---------------------------------------- 182 A Double View of German History----------------------------------------- 183 Churchill’s Speech at Zürich, 1946----------------------------------------- 184 A Collection of Generalisations, 1949 ------------------------------------- 185 Assumption with a Capital ‘A’: the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1950 ------- 186 ‘Home by Christmas’: General MacArthur, 1950 ----------------------- 186 The Path to the Treaty of Rome, 1957------------------------------------- 187 The Cuban Crisis, 1962------------------------------------------------------- 188 The Image of President Kennedy, 1961-63 ------------------------------ 189 Robert Fogel, a Pioneer of Data-led History, 1964---------------------- 189 A School Prize------------------------------------------------------------------ 191 The Torrey Canyon, 18 March 1967: the first super-tanker disaster— 191 The United Kingdom Joins the European Project, 1973-75----------- 193 Chesapeake Bay Collision, 1978 -------------------------------------------- 194 The Hitler Diaries, 1983----------------------------------------------------- 195 The Reith Lectures, 1985: too much
politics?----------------------------- 196 After the Treaty of Rome, 1957-1997------------------------------------- 198 Marine Safety, 1996----------------------------------------------------------- 198 Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow, 2011---------------------- 199 Miscellany of assumptions encountered in the last two decades Useful Advice---------------------------------------------------------------------205 Issues in Ambridge-------------------------------------------------------------- 205 Fatal Assumption Within a Family-------------------------------------------205 Party Wall Problem--------------------------------------------------------------206
‘When They Didn’t Call Back.------------------------------------------- 206 Marriage and Relationship---------------------------------------------------- 207 Homeopathy---------------------------------------------------------------------207 Health Screening---------------------------------------------------------------- 208 Sad Moment on a Northern Fellside----------------------------------------- 208 An Avalanche in Scotland------------------------------------------------------ 209 An Illusion of Rising Ground--------------------------------------------------211 An Illusion in Skiing------------------------------------------------------------ 212 The Qualified Pilot Assumption--------------------------------------------- 212 The Kittyhawk Exchange------------------------------------------------------- 212 Patriotism------------------------------------------------------------------------- 213 The European Union----------------------------------------------------------- 214 Richard III and the Mystery of the Two Princes-------------------------- 216 Are ‘Working Assumptions’ Dangerous?------------------------------------ 217 Guilty Until Proved Innocent - Bishop George Bell--------------------- 217 Assumptions in the Boeing 737 MAX Disasters, 2018-19-------------- 218 PART TWO: NON-CHRONOLOGICAL 1. Assumptions from Misleading Language -------------------------------- 222 2. Hubris in Large Organisations-------------------------------------------- 224 3. Free speech in Universities-------------------------------------------------- 226 4. The Vocabulary of
Assumption-------------------------------------------- 230 To summarise--------------------------------------------------------------------- 235 Sources and Further Reading-------------------------------------------------- 237
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CONTENTS Why I have compiled this history-------------------------------------------- 10 PART ONE: CHRONOLOGICAL Assumption in Ancient Greece ----------------------------------------------- 13 The Garden of Eden----------------------------------------------------------- 16 Hubris in the Book of Proverbs----------------------------------------------- 16 The Wooden Horse of Troy, c. 1180 BC---------------------------------- 16 Xerxes the Great, 480 BC------------------------------------------------------ 18 Sun Tzu, Fifth Century BC--------------------------------------------------- 19 Plato’s Dialogues, from 399 BC------------------------------------------------ 20 A Flat Earth?---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Ambiguity of the Oracles------------------------------------------------------- 21 Hannibal’s Crossing of the Alps, 218 BC------------------------------------ 22 The Birth of Christianity------------------------------------------------------- 23 Pliny the Younger--------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Weakness of the Later Roman Empire: the Emperor Valerian, AD 253-268_ 27 The Invention of Chess---------------------------------------------------------- 28 Ockham’s Razor------------------------------------------------------------------ 29 The Middle Ages ----------------------------------------------------------------- 29 An Architect of the Renaissance and his Enemies, 1462 ----------------- 31 Richard III and Henry VII: history written by the victor
----------------- 33 Shakespearean Tragedy---------------------------------------------------------- 33 The Scottish Play: Macbeth, 1606-------------------------------------------- 33 Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote, 1605, 1615 -------------------------- 34 Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626 ----------------------------------------------- 36 Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646----------------------- 37 René Descartes, 1644 ---------------------------------------------------------- 37
Baruch Spinoza, 1677 ---------------------------------------------------------- 38 John Milton: Paradise Lost, 1667 -------------------------------------------- 39 Pierre Bayle, 1647-1706------------------------------------------------------- 39 Louis XIV: the Decision of 16 November 1700 -------------------------- 42 The Loss of Gibraltar, 1704--------------------------------------------------- 44 The Path to Moscow I: Charles XII of Sweden, 1708-09--------------- 45 The Quebec Expedition, 1711 ----------------------------------------------- 50 The Elusive Northwest Passage----------------------------------------------- 53 Louis XV’s ‘Deerpark’---------------------------------------------------------- 56 Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1742 --------------------------------- 56 Collapse of a Vast Assumption, 1755 ------------------------------------- - 57 Voltaire, Defender of Free Speech, 1758 ----------------------------------- 58 Parliament and the North American Colonies, 1763—1783 ------------- 59 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1783 ----------------------------------------- 60 J.W. von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774 ------------------ 62 Edward Gibbon, 1776 -------------------------------------------------------- 62 Louis XVI: the Flight to Varennes, 21 June 1791------------------------- 64 Joseph Haydn: Massin Troubled Times, 1798 ----------------------------- 65 Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey, 1799 --------------------------------------- 66 J.W. von Goethe: Faust, Part One, 1808------------------------------------ 70 The Path to Moscow IF. Napoleon
Bonaparte, 1812--------------------- 70 Jane Austen: Emma, 1815 ---------------------------------------------------- 73 Thomas Carlyle and the Historian’s Illusion, 1830 ---------------------- 77 Dr David Strauss: Biblical Prophecy and Exegesis, 1835----------------Legend and Myth--------------------------------------------------------------Lord John Russell, an Assumption in Himself, 1838 --------------------The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839—1842 --------------------------------- 77 80 81 82 Marxism, 1848 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 83 Mazeppa, 1852 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 83 Lady Dedlock’s Fatal Assumption, 1852------------------------------------ 85 Pioneer Alpine Mountaineering, 1854 ------------------------------------- 86
Alexander Bain: The Emotions ofthe Will, 1859--------------------------- 87 Charles Darwin: On the Origin ofSpecies, 1859---------------------------- 87 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, 1859------------------------------------------- 88 Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, 1860 --------------------------------- 90 The Battle of Bull Run, June 1861-------------------------------------------92 Professor Tyndall, 1861---------------------------------------------------------- 93 Abraham Lincoln Provoked by his Generals, 1862-3 ------------------- 94 The Matterhorn Illusion, 1864 ----------------------------------------------- 96 Discovery of the Alpine Winter, 1864 -------------------------------------- 97 The Staplehurst Accident, 1865 --------------------------------------------- 98 Victorian Banking, 1866------------------------------------------------------ 100 Mr Casaubon in Middlemarch, 1871-------------------------------------- 100 The Menheniot Accident, 1873--------------------------------------------- 101 The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 ------------------------------------ 102 The Tay Bridge Disaster, 28 December 1879----------------------------- 102 Dr Arthur Conan Doyle and the Science of Deduction, from 1881 -- 105 Paradoxical Words of Oscar Wilde----------------------------------------- 111 The Public Moods of the Later Nineteenth Century--------------------- 112 Diary of a German Prince, 1898 -------------------------------------------- 113 A Book about Assumptions, 1902 ----------------------------------------- 113 Pioneer Alpine Skiing,
1902------------------------------------------------- 113 Ski Racing before the First World War------------------------------------ 114 Military Hubris of the Russian Empire, 1905----------------------------- 115 Pioneer Mountaineering on Ski, 1908, 1912 ----------------------------- 117 A Tribute to Sherlock Holmes?--------------------------------------------- 121 Assumptions in the Sherlock Holmes Stories----------------------------- 121 The Question of Female Suffrage, 1899—1914---------------------------- 122 The Shift in National Moods, 1914---------------------------------------- 124 The Sinking of the Titanic, April 1912------------------------------------ 125 John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1914--------------------------------126 An Agent of the Kaiser, 1914------------------------------------------------ 127
A Reasonable Assumption, August 1914------------------------------------ 128 The Schlieffen-Moltke Plan, 1914------------------------------------------- 129 Over by Christmas’, 1914----------------------------------------------------- 133 Working Assumptions in War, 1916---------------------------------------- 133 How the United States Entered the War, 1917-------------------------- 134 Sir Arnold Bax: November Woods, 1917--------------------------------------134 The Armistice, 1918 and the Treaty of Peace, 1919--------------------- 135 The Abermule Disaster, 1921-------------------------------------------------- 138 Good Advice, 1923------------------------------------------------------------- 140 Invention of the Modern Slalom Race, 1924 ----------------------------- 140 Sir George Jumps to a Conclusion, 1925 --------------------------------- 141 The Murder ofRoger Ackroyd, 1926----------------------------------------- 142 G.K. Chesterton, 1927_ 142 Dr Herbert Sumsion, 1928--------------------------------------------------- 145 The ‘Cambridge Five’---------------------------------------------------------- 146 The Mirage of Boa Vista, 1933 ---------------------------------------------- 146 An Abdication and an Assumption, 1936--------------------------------- 148 Winston Churchill in the Thirties ----------------------------------------- 149 Persuasion Methods of Adolf Hitler---------------------------------------- 151 The Propaganda of Dr Goebbels-------------------------------------------- 151 Hitler’s ‘Foot in the Door’: Winter 1933
--------------------------------- 154 The Burning of the Reichstag, 27 February 1933 ------------------------ 161 Churchill, a Voice in the Wilderness--------------------------------------- 162 A Fortnight at a Time with Churchill, 1936-39------------------------- 163 Assumptions of Neville Chamberlain, 1938-40 ------------------------- 164 A Battleship Sunk in Scapa Flow, 1939------------------------------------ 166 Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: the Channel Dash, 1942 -------------------- 167 The Path to Moscow III: what did Hitler learn from Charles XII and Bonaparte?------------------------------------------------------- -------169 Hubris of the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre: Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942 ------------------------------------------------------------- 172
The Battle of Midway, 1942 ------------------------------------------------ 174 The Fall of Singapore, 1942-------------------------------------------------- 175 Another Angle on Hubris: C.S. Lewis, 1943 ----------------------------- 176 D-Day, 1944-------------------------------------------------------------------- 176 Over by Christmas’: Arnhem, September 1944 ------------------------- 180 The Twilight of Dr Goebbels, 1945---------------------------------------- 182 A Double View of German History----------------------------------------- 183 Churchill’s Speech at Zürich, 1946----------------------------------------- 184 A Collection of Generalisations, 1949 ------------------------------------- 185 Assumption with a Capital ‘A’: the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1950 ------- 186 ‘Home by Christmas’: General MacArthur, 1950 ----------------------- 186 The Path to the Treaty of Rome, 1957------------------------------------- 187 The Cuban Crisis, 1962------------------------------------------------------- 188 The Image of President Kennedy, 1961-63 ------------------------------ 189 Robert Fogel, a Pioneer of Data-led History, 1964---------------------- 189 A School Prize------------------------------------------------------------------ 191 The Torrey Canyon, 18 March 1967: the first super-tanker disaster— 191 The United Kingdom Joins the European Project, 1973-75----------- 193 Chesapeake Bay Collision, 1978 -------------------------------------------- 194 The Hitler Diaries, 1983----------------------------------------------------- 195 The Reith Lectures, 1985: too much
politics?----------------------------- 196 After the Treaty of Rome, 1957-1997------------------------------------- 198 Marine Safety, 1996----------------------------------------------------------- 198 Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow, 2011---------------------- 199 Miscellany of assumptions encountered in the last two decades Useful Advice---------------------------------------------------------------------205 Issues in Ambridge-------------------------------------------------------------- 205 Fatal Assumption Within a Family-------------------------------------------205 Party Wall Problem--------------------------------------------------------------206
‘When They Didn’t Call Back.------------------------------------------- 206 Marriage and Relationship---------------------------------------------------- 207 Homeopathy---------------------------------------------------------------------207 Health Screening---------------------------------------------------------------- 208 Sad Moment on a Northern Fellside----------------------------------------- 208 An Avalanche in Scotland------------------------------------------------------ 209 An Illusion of Rising Ground--------------------------------------------------211 An Illusion in Skiing------------------------------------------------------------ 212 The Qualified Pilot Assumption--------------------------------------------- 212 The Kittyhawk Exchange------------------------------------------------------- 212 Patriotism------------------------------------------------------------------------- 213 The European Union----------------------------------------------------------- 214 Richard III and the Mystery of the Two Princes-------------------------- 216 Are ‘Working Assumptions’ Dangerous?------------------------------------ 217 Guilty Until Proved Innocent - Bishop George Bell--------------------- 217 Assumptions in the Boeing 737 MAX Disasters, 2018-19-------------- 218 PART TWO: NON-CHRONOLOGICAL 1. Assumptions from Misleading Language -------------------------------- 222 2. Hubris in Large Organisations-------------------------------------------- 224 3. Free speech in Universities-------------------------------------------------- 226 4. The Vocabulary of
Assumption-------------------------------------------- 230 To summarise--------------------------------------------------------------------- 235 Sources and Further Reading-------------------------------------------------- 237 |
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