The first foundations of all history are the recitals of the fathers to the children, transmitted afterward from one generation to another; at their origin they are at the very most probable, when they do not shock common sense, and they lose one degree of probability in each generation.
Voltaire [1694-1778]. The Philosophical Dictionary. translated 1924 by H.I. Woolf
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