On the Harmful Effects of Excessive Anti-Whiggism

摘要: You don’t need me to remind you that the coming of age history science has relegated discipline’s prehistory all enlightened amateurs’ attempts collect past curiosities which, under some unspecified criteria, appeared as ‘interesting’. By same token, “history science” become a legitimate academic discipline in its own right, one possessing well-delimited subject matter. History is now methodologically principled study scientific achievements, light factors which determined their production, acceptance, and diffusion gave them meaning significance first place.