The writing of history is an ancient and honorable pro- fession. What is more, like the arts and unlike the sciences, it reached a degree of perfection early in the ancient world which, in a sense, it has never surpassed. Thucydides is as supreme a figure in the art of history as Sophocles in the art of tragedy. Only science and technology have pro- gressed, steadily, encouragingly, and frighte…
The writing of history is an ancient and honorable pro- fession. What is more, like the arts and unlike the sciences, it reached a degree of perfection early in the ancient world which, in a sense, it has never surpassed. Thucydides is as supreme a figure in the art of history as Sophocles in the art of tragedy. Only science and technology have pro- gressed, steadily, encouragingly, and frighte…