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Although it is not impossible to find a subjunctive in British writing of today, it is becoming increasingly difficult; indeed, in a book I recently completed for Oxford University Press, virtually all subjunctives were replaced by indicatives (which, because of the solecisms created in American English, occasioned my rewriting of the text to avoid the problem).
As the reader can tell, both from these comments and from my shabby efforts in this periodical, I can rarely support the rewriting of my own material and, in fact, almost never rewrite anything of my own.
For the most part, the book consists of a rewriting of history, from the dawn of time, with the purpose of demonstrating two main themes: the “fact” that women were responsible for all the important contributions to the advancement of civilization (as the development of agriculture, for instance), often despite the arrogance and stupidity of men; and the “fact” that women have long been subjected to domination by men.
How I longed for the parade of proofs, the excitement of rewriting and perfecting!"
Diggins forgets, in his discompassionate and deluded rewriting of history, that Lincoln was no NAACP poster boy himself.