Excerpt from The Living Past: A Sketch in Western Progress
Public interest in history is clearly on the increase. There is, however, one obstacle to its effective study which is growing likewise, and has in recent years become serious and even threatening. Not only is mankind, by thought and action, constantly accumulating the material for fresh history, but our knowledge of the past is, by the exploration of the world, by the discovery of fresh documents, above all by the widening of our notion of history itself, becoming immeasurably fuller and more complex. The growing interest seems to run some risk of being smothered by the abundance of its food.
The study needs a clue, especially in England where our accustomed methods of teaching and the exigencies of examinations have hitherto precluded the more general view, and the student who comes to the great subject in somewhat maturer years is apt to feel lost in its immensity. The keen teacher anxious to extend his knowledge and improve his methods, the workman in his tutorial class, are well aware of the difficulty. It will increase, for ourselves and others, as time goes on, unless we take steps to meet it.
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