Volume 25, Number 6 · April 20, 1978
Power in History
By Herbert Butterfield
History: Choice and Commitment
by Felix Gilbert
Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 549 pp., $18.50
Sometimes, when the human race has gone through one of its colossal chapters of experience, men in the afterperiod have been so appalled by the catastrophe, so obsessed by the memory of it, that they have gone back to the story again and again, finding new angles of research, new aspects of the matter to reflect upon, as one generation succeeds another—a process of thinking and rethinking, which in special cases is capable of continuing for a thousand years and more. As a result of this, there piles up (with the passage of the generations) a tremendous accumulation of commentary on any single great historical theme.
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