A Plea for the Historical Teaching of History An Inaugural Lecture Delivered On
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A mere catalogue of parlia- mentary reports fills a whole volume, and who shall number the volumes of Hansard ?
Everywhere, therefore, the historian is made con- scious of the limitations of his own knowledge about the past, and the limitations of men's possible knowledge. He feels that he moves in a little circle of light, seeing as far as his little candle throws its beams ; and beyond that comes darkness. The wisest historians I have known recognized most fully how little they could know abo...ut the times they knew best, admitted the provisional nature of some of their conclusions, and were careful to disti guish between what was really certain, and what was only probable.
Thus the historian is doubly limited; first by the difficulty of finding out the facts, and then by the difficulty of representing them. Even if he seems for the moment to overcome both difficulties, how transitory 1 For instance, in May, 1646, to 1667 eventful years in which before surrendering Oxford, the the Restoration settlement was councillors of the king burnt all being worked out, and there is the records of the Parliament no evidence to show that such which he held here, and with reports ever existed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A mere catalogue of parlia- mentary reports fills a whole volume, and who shall number the volumes of Hansard ?
Everywhere, therefore, the historian is made con- scious of the limitations of his own knowledge about the past, and the limitations of men's possible knowledge. He feels that he moves in a little circle of light, seeing as far as his little candle throws its beams ; and beyond that comes darkness. The wisest historians I have known recognized most fully how little they could know abo...ut the times they knew best, admitted the provisional nature of some of their conclusions, and were careful to disti guish between what was really certain, and what was only probable.
Thus the historian is doubly limited; first by the difficulty of finding out the facts, and then by the difficulty of representing them. Even if he seems for the moment to overcome both difficulties, how transitory 1 For instance, in May, 1646, to 1667 eventful years in which before surrendering Oxford, the the Restoration settlement was councillors of the king burnt all being worked out, and there is the records of the Parliament no evidence to show that such which he held here, and with reports ever existed.
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