Taka
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 7, 2004
- Member Type
- Other
- Native Language
- Japanese
- Home Country
- Japan
- Current Location
- Japan
The sentences:
With the historian the case is different. HIs facts belong to the past, and the past is gone forever. We cannot reconstruct it; we cannot waken it to a new life in a mere physical, objective sense. All we can do is to "remember" it--give it a new existence.
What exactly does "a new existence" mean here? Why does it exist though we cannot reconstruct it?
With the historian the case is different. HIs facts belong to the past, and the past is gone forever. We cannot reconstruct it; we cannot waken it to a new life in a mere physical, objective sense. All we can do is to "remember" it--give it a new existence.
What exactly does "a new existence" mean here? Why does it exist though we cannot reconstruct it?
