Historical knowledge, this noted Dutch historian declares, should
be a result of free investigation and criticism. Since it deals
with facts, not imagination, it cannot be cast into a predetermined
mold to fit a unified pattern of arbitrary principles. "The most we
can hope for," he states, "is a partial rendering, an
approximation, of the real truth about the past." In this succinct
analysis of the philosophy and method of history, Professor Geyl
examines the prevailing concepts of history and the new "awareness
of distance" from the past that was lacking in earlier historians.
History, he points out, provides an elucidation of the present and
its problems by showing them in perspective. This important study
of the historical point of view is based on the author's Terry
Lecture at Yale.
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