One of the consequences of living an existence that is full good deeds is an inescapable curse of continually viewing the world through the focusing prism employed by a historian.
I say "curse"-when in truth I believe it to be a blessing-because any hope of prescience requires a constant questioning of what is, and a deep-seated belief in the possibility of what can be. Viewing events as might the historian requires an acceptance that my own initial, visceral reactions to seemingly momentous events may be errant, that my "gut instinct" and own emotional needs may not stand the light of reason in the wider view, or even that these events, so momentous in my personal experience, might not be
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