Capitolo 16
what we owe the notion and the scientific methods that make history
then otherwise from what was to the survivors of the last century.
Separately, the innovators were not superior to the men of old man.
Masons it was as widely reading, Tillemont as accurate, Liebnitz as able,
You chase as acute, Gibbon as magistral in the art of composite
construction. Nevertheless, in the second quarter of this century, a
it was new it started for historical.
I would sharpen particularly to three things, out of many, what
constitutes the correct order. Of the incessant downpour again and
unsuspected matter I have need says little. For of the years, the secret
file of the papacy is accessible to Paris; but the time was
I don't mature, and almost the only man that they benefited to it was the
same archivist #57. Toward 1830 the documentary studies started on
a great staircase, Austria that conducts the way. Michelet that asks,
toward 1836, to have been the pioneer #58, were preceded from this way
competing as Mackintosh, Bucholtz and Mignet. A new and more
productive period started thirty years later, when the war of 1859
staid opens the loots of Italy. Every country in succession has
is now permitted the exploration of his/her records, and there is
more fear to drown that of the drought. The result has been that
a life reimburses in the greatest harvest of printed books it is able
you are not enough to train a true master of modern history. After him
you/he/she was turned by the sources literature, from Burner to Pocock,
from Macaulay to Mrs. Bell, from Thiers to the endless one
correspondence of the Bonapartes, he sticks it would feel him immediate
need of investigation in Venice or Naples, in the library of Ossuna or to
the hermitage #59.
These matters don't now pertain to us. For our purpose, the principal thing
to learn is not the art to accumulate material, but the art of sublimer
to investigate him/it, of the perspicacious truth from the falsehood and the certainty
from doubt. It is from solidity of the criticism more than from the fullness