"Только специалисты читают старые книги, а мы теперь...

"Only specialists read old books, and now we have trained specialists so that they are the least able to extract wisdom from there. We achieved this by instilling in them the Historical Point of View. The Historical Point of View, in short, means the following: when a specialist gets acquainted with the thoughts of an ancient author , he does not think about whether to consider the written truth, it is important for him who influenced this ancient author, how much his views are consistent with what he wrote in other books, what phase in his development or in the general history of thought this illustrates It is understood how all this influenced later writers, how they understood it (especially the colleagues of this specialist), what the scientists said in the last decade and what the “state of the issue is at present.” Seeing the author as a source of knowledge, assuming that what he reads will change his thoughts or behavior, no one will, because it is “truly naive.” Since we cannot deceive the whole of humanity at all times, it is very important to separate each generation from previous and subsequent, because where knowledge leads to free communication of generations, always but there is a danger that errors characteristic of a given generation will be corrected by truths characteristic of another. But thanks to our father and the Historical Point of View, great scholars now eat so little on the past, as the most ignorant artisan, who believes that "in the old days there was one nonsense."

Letters of Balamut