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To understand the past adequately, we must forget the present. This advice is easily advanced. It is difficult to heed. Yet the effort is worthwhile; historical and philosophical research withers beneath the intense rays of hindsight. Resist temptations to treat ancient problems as if they required our modern answers! To understand older perplexities fully we must have them: we must make ourselves have them. Only then will it be clear why the ancients’ answers seemed plausible and reasonable to them; they were men, after all, no less quick-witted than ourselves.

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The Great Facts of the Heavens

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    2026年

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  • Norwood Russell Hanson

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To understand the past adequately, we must forget the present. This advice is easily advanced. It is difficult to heed. Yet the effort is worthwhile; historical and philosophical research withers beneath the intense rays of hindsight. Resist temptations to treat ancient problems as if they required our modern answers! To understand older perplexities fully we must have them: we must make ourselves have them. Only then will it be clear why the ancients’ answers seemed plausible and reasonable to them; they were men, after all, no less quick-witted than ourselves.