Remembrance of Things Past
Solomon Katz
THE HISTORIAN d la recherche du temps perdu, groping for the remembrance of things past, must sometimes long that cup tea and those plump little cakes called madeleines, which evoked past Proust. Assisted by no such restorative cakes, historian finds himself confronted either too many or else few data about particular segment to he is committed. He aware as well facts do not really speak themselves, but be ordered in some pattern meaningful at least him. There indeed shortage patterns, this paper will show, if there a perfect paradigm, it stored away heaven. The likely, moreover, plagued doubts his ability establish recognizes subtle relationship between history what happened, wie es eigentlich gewesen ist, account happened. is, therefore, once exhilarated challenge calling depressed its difficulty. At moments despair, however, may recall glow satisfaction when detects first signs historical sophistication among own students who longer regard bunk, because different books, on contrary consider one chief attractions.
Pacific Historical Review