![]() ![]() He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer’s development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (especially by the learned man’s own colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the ‘present sate of the question’. The Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is whether it is true. We have done this by inculcating the Historical Point of View. ![]() ![]() Only the learned read old books, and we have now so dealt with the learned that they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. ![]()
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