Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.