Collingwood's biographer remarked that much was made in a minor peda- gogic movement of the 19705 of his idea of putting oneself imaginatively into some past period'。Part I of this book should have shown that this movement was more than nninor。Indeed,nearly two decades after empathy was introduced by the Lceds-based Schools Council History Project,even Colin Dexter's lugubrious Inspector Morse could complain to his colleague:‘But they don't go in for facts in History these days。They go in for empathy。Lewis,Whatever that is.
科林伍德的傳記作者指出,很多事情是在19705年的一次小小的教育運動中做出的,他想像力地將自己帶入了過去的某個時代。”這本書的第一部分應該表明,這一運動不止於nninor。事實上,近兩個在基於Leds的Schools Council History Project引入同情心的幾十年後,甚至Colin Dexter的虛弱檢查員Morse都可以向他的同事抱怨:“但是,這些天,他們不追求歷史事實。他們追求同情心。Lewis,不管是什麼。