He had only imagined a slower fighting style from an unconscious assumption that man in the past were weaker or slower or less imaginative than he wa… - Michael Crichton

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He had only imagined a slower fighting style from an unconscious assumption that man in the past were weaker or slower or less imaginative than he was, as a modern man.
Marek knew this assumption of superiority was a difficulty faced by every historian. He just hadn’t thought he was guilty of it.
But clearly, he was.