To start a BLOG with a quotation, was not my original intention.
But just as I was about to write my first entry, I found a quotation I wrote down years ago.
Though it is sceptic about the necessity of historians, it quite eloquently puts reason into focus and gives the relevance of historical research a specific timeframe:
"[...] historians, like natural philosophers, come to believe reason sufficient for understanding and deceive themselves that they see all and comprehend everything.
In fact their labours ignore the significant and bury it deep under the weight of their wisdom.
The mind of man unaided cannot grasp the truth, but only constructs fantasies and fictions which convince until they convince no more, and which are true only until discarded and replaced."
(Iain Pears "An Instance of the Fingerpost")
This quotation therefore seemed ideal to get my main intention about the fiction of history and the reason of the unreasonable into my first posting.
I hope you will enjoy reading my musings and I welcome comments and feedback.
Thank you for your attention and best greetings,
RG
