6/30/2023 0 Comments Waterland swift![]() ![]() ![]() But it is easy to see through this academic padding to the naked desire of the author to explain and justify a lifetime devoted to unravelling the secrets of the past. The studies which emerge from this new passion are invariably clothed in the full panoply of scholarship. ![]() Many historians, usually at the peak of a career during which they have written books of great elegance and erudition, have sought to justify prudent scholarship by speculative inquiry into the nature and meaning of writing history. Like so many serious complaints, it usually strikes in late middle age. Ruminating on the nature of history is one of the occupational diseases of the historian. ![]()
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