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History as ScourgeEssay Preview: History as ScourgeReport this essayHistory as ScourgeHow truly the wisest of men used to assert that the souls of despots, if revealed, would show wounds and mutilations Ð- weals left on the spirit, like lash-marks on a body, by cruelty, lust, and malevolence. Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome. Penguin Group..